A little light glowing in the dark is a beautiful thing.
So is blue in the window, and a smiling moon.

When I was homebound with debilitating symptoms for more than a year, these quiet scenes were a comfort to me. I've often questioned the role of beauty in times of suffering – can it help numb a person's pain, or does it drown in the throes? What I've come to realize is that it does neither.

Beautiful things simply persist in their existence.

Even in the valley, there is beauty to be found and experienced.

Dear Gentle Days is a collection of days made gentle by the glimmers around us. 

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YT Tommy Lee is an artist living and working in Singapore.

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