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“Through every life, lived fully or not, taken note of or not, cycles repeat within and without our mortal vessels. Tiny samples of starting and ending match the macroscopic in their ebs and flows. Rises and falls. Wins and losses. Loves and hates. Embarkations and abandonments. Just as a spell of ascendant convergence may arise from a wondrously perfect storm, an equally perfect one in opposition may cast all that was uplifted into destruction and despair.” ~ Dark Sentiments Season 8 — Day 1: A Greeting from your Favourite Reaper

It would be a mistake to presume that the cycles impinging upon our lives are beyond our ability to control. Particularly so if the presumption is that a cycle could not find its beginning, ending, acceleration, or diminution in our own actions, indeed even our mere presence in a certain place and time.

Tonight’s Dark Sentiment is brought to you courtesy of the ever reliable CGBros:

“‘Descendants‘ is a 14 minute animated short about the wish of attaining the unattainable and about the fact that something good can evolve from something evil.

“The two main characters are flowers (voiced by Whoopi Goldberg and Christy Scott Cashman) who grow on the edge of a clearing next to one another.
One is old and jaded by a mysterious history – the other one still young, vivid and curious. Destiny has brought these two together and it seems as if they would exist without possibility for change, until one day a visitor to the clearing brings something unexpected to their lives.” ~ The Making of Descendants

Descendants was written by Heiko van der Scherm, directed by Patrick Cunningham and Heiko der Scherm, and features the voices of Whoopi Goldberg and Christy Scott Cashman. Pour yourself something nice, settle back, and smell the flowers.