Today's word

lambent /LAM bunt/ - 1. playing lightly on or over a surface : flickering  2. softly bright or radiant 3. marked by lightness or brilliance especially of expression

A word I've seen before and always understood from context, but am glad of the opportunity to see on its own, where I didn't recognize it at first. (This is kind of like the time our daughter gave birth to her oldest child and we ran into a friend - whom we'd known from church and covenant community, had seen them twice in the same year seven years before, but had never seen outside of Mississippi - at the hospital because her daughter had moved here and was in false labor. Her face looked familiar, but it took us a moment to realize from where, because seeing her here was so out of context.)