“The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love – whether we call it friendship or family or romance – is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other’s light. Gentle work. Steadfast work. Life-saving work in those moments when life and shame and sorrow occlude our own light from our view, but there is still a clear-eyed loving person to beam it back. In our best moments, we are that person for another.”

-James Baldwin

These reflections in nature seem to speak of the delicate, steadfast, sweet, life-saving work that Baldwin speaks of in this profound quote. What is more important that mirroring a fellow traveler’s light back to them?