Our ideas build on other ideas throughout our lives. Illuminating the connections that bring our ideas to life can happen through our attention, the right context, or the actual process of light enlivening the work right before our eyes. Yakima is a valley full of light, with 300+ days of sun a year and an East-West orientation carved from ancient geologic forces and Missoula Floods, there is rarely a day without some curious, remarkable, or inspiring pattern of light on the sage-covered hills and valley floor. Find your illumination connection to new ideas at TEDxYakima 2013!