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lightcastle) wrote2010-02-28 03:59 pm
lightcastle) wrote2010-02-28 03:59 pm
All things pass
The great globe light of the Castelluccis is no more.
It was in that style that I suspect was popular in the 60's and 70's - just a big round white-frosted glass globe around an incandescent bulb. My parents have had it for as long as I can remember. I suspect it predates my sister. It's been a strange alien dome for adventure people to explore. It was the light source for artistic photos my sister took in high school. It's always been the source of illumination linked to my parents' living room.
Last night, my dad, having trouble getting the TV to respond to the remote, leaned back quickly and knocked it off its pedestal, shattering it utterly.
And so now we have new lights in the living room, and some small piece of my childhood is gone.
All things pass.
It was in that style that I suspect was popular in the 60's and 70's - just a big round white-frosted glass globe around an incandescent bulb. My parents have had it for as long as I can remember. I suspect it predates my sister. It's been a strange alien dome for adventure people to explore. It was the light source for artistic photos my sister took in high school. It's always been the source of illumination linked to my parents' living room.
Last night, my dad, having trouble getting the TV to respond to the remote, leaned back quickly and knocked it off its pedestal, shattering it utterly.
And so now we have new lights in the living room, and some small piece of my childhood is gone.
All things pass.