No no, don't worry. I promise it's not another school disaster... Look, here's Olivia just glowing!
Actually just before students vacated, a candlelight procession was organized in which the kids of the school and nearby villages walked around the neighborhood singing Christmas carols to the beat of an African drum. Correction: to the many beats of many African drums.
It was truly a magical night as we said goodbye to each other (and the entire past year).
As we watched the bonfire during a moment of silence, the simple symbolism of "light" was lost on no one, most especially me:
Ever since we crawled out of that primordial slime, that's been our unifying cry, "More light." Sunlight. Torchlight. Candlelight. Neon, incandescent lights that banish the darkness from our caves to illuminate our roads, the insides of our refrigerators. Big floods for the night games at Soldier's Field. Little tiny flashlights for those books we read under the covers when we're supposed to be asleep. Light is more than watts and footcandles.
Light is metaphor. Light is knowledge, light is life, light is light.
~Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider
We are each gifted in a unique and important way.
It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light.
~Evelyn Dunbar
In a profound sense every man has two halves to his being;
he is not one person so much as two persons trying to act in unison.
I believe that in the heart of each human being
there is something which I can only describe as a "child of darkness"
who is equal and complementary to the more obvious "child of light."
~Laurens van der Post
How far that little candle throws its beams!
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
~William Shakespeare
So my genuine wish for every single one of you readers: HAPPY FEELGOODING IN 2012!!!!!!!
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
~Buddha
SO LET THERE BE LIGHT :)
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