Photo Essay Series: Lititz Lights and The Quiet Beauty of Snow

The thing about light is that you never really notice it during the day. But at night, each individual light seems like its own little star, illuminating it’s own little world. All the while the ever-present cold blue glow of the night fills in every shadow with a chilling, yet reassuring tone. Sometimes you don’t see this tone. It might be too bright to see it at first. But if you look hard enough - into the little crevices between snow mounds or on the walls of unlit alleys, or at dark places under broken street lights, you’ll see that it’s always there. To me, that’s weirdly reassuring.

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...and of course, Black Lives Matter

As an LGBTQ+ person, I recognize the importance that those with privilege play in a fight for equality. As a privileged white person, I feel it is my duty to stand up with black Americans, just as my brothers and sisters at Stonewall cast a rock into an ocean and made ripples that eventually turned into a tidal wave. And that wave still builds to this day. I am proud to be a part of the wave that will bring down white supremacy and erode the foundations of racism in this country alongside side anyone who will fight with us.

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Tom Roe