Life can be hard. It can grind you down as the years roll on by. But it’s by trying to find the light amidst the darkness that allows us to keep going despite all that bears down on us.

The light can take many forms; the stability of a tightly-bound community; the passion of a loving romance; the spiritual pull of great music; an afternoon on an empty beach; the transcendent beauty of the way Roger Deakins captures the subtle hope in melancholic morning sunlight. All these things and many more can send our hearts aflutter and furnish us with the spirit to push on. Whatever works. Just find the light.