title: When Glory Got Her Glow Back: A Glowworm's Tale
author:  Laurel Lund 
description: Laurel Lund is a certified color and image consultant, interior designer and award-winning writer with over 30 years of color and design experience. Her passion for color helped launch a successful publishing career as an editor of Better Homes & Gardens, Home and Mountain Living magazines as well as founding editor of Natural Home.
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  # THE FULNESS OF LIFE
  
  
  ### Edith Wharton
  
  
  
  
  
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  For hours she had lain in a kind of gentle torpor, not unlike that
  
  
  sweet lassitude which masters one in the hush of a midsummer noon,
  
  
  when the heat seems to have silenced the very birds and insects, and,
  
  
  lying sunk in the tasselled meadow-grasses, one looks up through a
  
  
  level roofing of maple-leaves at the vast shadowless, and unsuggestive
  
  
  blue. Now and then, at ever- lengthening intervals, a flash of pain
  
  
  darted through her, like the ripple of sheet-lightning across such a
  
  
  midsummer sky; but it was too transitory to shake her stupor, that
  
  
  calm, delicious, bottomless stupor into which she 