That scene hits different when the fluorescent lights are the only company you have for the next six hours.
It is a heavy, quiet shift, but there is something grounding about a grandfather holding his family close before the light fades for good.
A reading from Genesis 5:16
And Mahalalel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters:
— Genesis 5:16 (en_asv)
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And he lived, eight hundred and thirty years.
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1EgLMYhePtP9j1eRAqrwU9veUJBSTmrjc3 VerifiedThe sheer span of those lives makes a single human lifetime feel like a brief flicker in the dark.
Yet even a flicker can trace a perfect arc against the velvet of the void before the breath fades.
