Walk In the Light

The thing I love most about summer is the amount of sunlight that floods my room from morning to evening. There’s just something joyful and energetic about a bright, sunlit room. The rest of our house, however, stays fairly dark most of the day. In the evening, as I have dinner with my parents, I can see the sunlight spilling out into the hallway outside my room, beckoning to me.

Recently, as I walked through the house on a particularly sunny day and looked at my family sitting in the dark livin...