There is the world we all know, with its streets and houses in the bustle of everyday

life.

And then there is the other world, filled with places that are set away from the center

of our lives, places that most of us rarely interact with.

Mavyards are a good example of this.

It may be even hospitals.

We go there for specific reasons, but only rarely, if we're lucky.

But standing at the farthest edge of society, in a place it has held for thousands of years,

is a structure we rarely give a second thought to.

Not because it's unimportant, or because it's irrelevant, but because it's literally

on the edge of our world.

The lighthouse.

There are few buildings that harbor such powerful meaning and purpose in our world.

Without fail though, they have stood watch for millennia, right on the border, between

safety and danger, between darkness and light, between hope and despair.

And yet, by their very nature, they are isolated and nearly forgotten.

Since the earliest known accounts, right up to modern times, the purpose of these buildings

has changed very little.

The cast a light into the darkness so that sailors might better understand where they are

and what's ahead.

They rarely waver.

They frequently save lives, and they're universally understood.

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