A Fiery, Illustrious Display of Beauty

Dylan Aguirre-Miller, Staff Photographer

These photos were taken in Brighton, CO during sunset. I describe this time as a “fiery, illustrious display of beauty,”.  The word “fiery’’ emphasizes the vivid, almost burning quality of the orange and red hues in the sky. The word “illustrious’’ suggests a grand and impressive spectacle, which is appropriate given the vastness of the sky and the reflection of the water.

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Shattered Glass

Rose Cordova, Staff Writer and Social Media Contributor

Shattered glass, glass that has been picked up and put back together time and time again with glue, low-quality glue, but glue nonetheless. The glue is what keeps it together, as it is medication or pure ignorance. It acts as a protector from the things shattered glass chooses not to see. The glue, in its opinion, helps the shattered glass. It saves the shattered glass from any more harm, from tiny disputes to detrimental conflict. What the glue does not know is that the shattered glass no longer wants protection but to feel the war within, to fight, to live, to survive, to die. The shattered glass pleads and pleads with the glue, but the glue is relentless; it sees no problem with staying put; it is a creature of habit by pure definition: “Someone who has a noticeable number of habits that determine or characterize his behavior, a methodical kind of person, a very willing slave to routine.” (Unknown Author).

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