{"id":3382,"date":"2026-01-26T23:31:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T04:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=3382"},"modified":"2026-01-26T23:32:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T04:32:39","slug":"birdhouse-in-your-soul-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=3382","title":{"rendered":"birdhouse in your soul"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I drove back from D&#8217;s apartment after dropping off a few things, and at a stoplight, glanced over at the passenger footwell to see a faint wisp of white LED light shining from the front of the amp under the seat.  There&#8217;s always been something deeply reassuring about small lighted sentinels &#8220;standing guard&#8221; over me, like tiny lighthouses.  When I was a pre-teen, instead of turning off my radio completely at night, I&#8217;d simply turn down the volume so the red &#8220;stereo&#8221; light would remain lit, watching me as I slept.  I used to have a subscription to <em>Flying<\/em> magazine, and one of my favorite ads featured the profile of a business jet cruising at night, the dim light from its windows and the spectral outline of the jet itself the only things visible in the photo.  I loved the feeling of the ad, the idea that the plane&#8217;s passengers were safe and warm inside while the pilots vigilantly monitored the flight from the cockpit.  And on winter nights, when I take the dog out the back door to do her business before bed, through the naked trees, I can often see the faint light of a distant window peeking through the forest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The common element between all these is that somehow, they remind me, in a tangible way, that someone, somewhere is watching over me.  Or maybe it&#8217;s all just a fancy way of saying I like nightlights.  Either way, I don&#8217;t care that it may seem childish; these days, I&#8217;ll take all the sources of reassurance I can get, especially ones that have a history of connecting deeply with me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I drove back from D&#8217;s apartment after dropping off a few things, and at a stoplight, glanced over at the passenger footwell to see a faint wisp of white LED light shining from the front of the amp under the seat. There&#8217;s always been something deeply reassuring about small lighted sentinels &#8220;standing guard&#8221; over me, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3382"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3382"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3385,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3382\/revisions\/3385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}