{"id":1967,"date":"2019-12-19T09:49:37","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T09:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=1967"},"modified":"2019-12-19T10:51:07","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T10:51:07","slug":"lights-in-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=1967","title":{"rendered":"Lights in windows&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>pulsing LED heralds of the solstice and gift-giving. The dark&#8217;s still rising but there&#8217;s more cheer about than the November slog, Melville&#8217;s grimness about the mouth. The days will start to stretch soon, light cracking the blackness before I wake. And people look outside themselves a little. The long nights bring more time at the pages. I find another collection of Orkney tales of crofters and fishermen, yule yarns and candles in the stone-set glass, old men by the fireside. There&#8217;s some yearning in me for the natural, living as I do in the asphalted shards of it, the strip of grass I planted, the herbs and spindly organics in the border. Most things under my patch of sky here are designed, straight-angled and hard. It&#8217;s taken me a long time to see the art in this designed world, a different kind of beauty that resonates nonetheless. I&#8217;m drawn to the magic of the lines, colours and shadows, they have their own rightness. That rightness of music, of craft, of Newton&#8217;s mappings, Jack&#8217;s confused missives and all human efforts to match the natural resonance. The best of our designed world is no less sublime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"747\" src=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191129_150021-1024x747.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1968\" srcset=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191129_150021-1024x747.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191129_150021-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191129_150021-768x560.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>pulsing LED heralds of the solstice and gift-giving. The dark&#8217;s still rising but there&#8217;s more cheer about than the November slog, Melville&#8217;s grimness about the mouth. The days will start to stretch soon, light cracking the blackness before I wake. And people look outside themselves a little. The long nights bring more time at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-henry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1967"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1971,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967\/revisions\/1971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}