One minute, your heart and mind are overthrown by a life-changing film, a miraculous performance or the radiant energy of brilliant people talking passionately about their art.

Pumpkins are a source of “radiant energy” and “inspiration for the artist since her childhood, when she was surrounded by her family’s seed nursery in prewar Japan,” according to the Smithsonian Institution.

Surface temperatures tend to run hotter than the air above, especially on sunny days when surfaces are heated both by air and the Sun’s radiant energy.

If we imagine love as a powerful, radiant energy that can be concentrated and cast outward, I imagine it might sound something like this.

NASA’s Glory satellite — which launched in 2011 from Vandenberg and was designed to determine the effects of aerosols and the sun’s radiant energy on the Earth’s climate — similarly failed to reach orbit.