October 3, 2018
Minority & Small Business Week
Page 17
Arts &
ENTERTAINMENT
Comedy Shines in ‘A Life’
Dana Green, Nat DeWolf, Gary Norman and Cycerli Ash perform in the Portland Center
Stage at the Armory production of “A Life,” a funny play about the meaning of life from
Adam Bock and commissioned for its West Coast debut. Show opens Thursday, Oct. 4 and
plays through Nov. 11 in the Ellyn Bye Studio.
Bulbs that mimick the sun offer a more natural kind of light.
Adjusting
Darker Days
to
K ay n ewell
t he l ight l aDy at s unlan
Fall is here, the days are
shorter. The dark is coming
fast. When the sun isn’t up
when you wake up and it’s dark
before you head home at night,
you can feel like hibernating
like a bear. A trip to any place
where the sun shines would
help you get through winter.
If only you could migrate with
the seasons. But no; you have
to stay and work in gray, rainy
Portland.
There is help. All you have
to do is trick your body to think
that the sun is shining. An easy
method is to change your light-
ing environment to a more nat-
ural kind of light by using high
CRI (High Color Rendering
Index) lamps to mimicking
sunlight in your office or home.
You use your own fixtures. Just
by
change your bulbs.
Halogen bulbs provide a
light that is about 100 percent
of early morning light. Neo-
dymium, a screw-in Incan-
descent bulb, is like afternoon
light. Invented in Finland, these
bulbs are popular in Europe be-
cause the light has a more nat-
ural balance of color. Great for
reading, and great for changing
your mood if impacted by sea-
sonal affective disorder (SAD).
Both kinds of light come in
the standard shapes and flood
lights for your standard fixtures
I offer the small LED Light-
book Advantage that provides
the feel sunshine in a book size
unit you use 15 minutes to start
your day.
Visit me at Sunlan Lighting,
3951 N. Mississippi Ave., for
light bulbs and lamps to light
up your world.