Festival of Lights!

[sartorias]

I was listening to some Ernst Bloch while on the way back from the grocery store (and there was rain! A whole two minutes of it! And there I was having forgotten how this car turns on its wipers), and realized I had not wished a happy Chanukah to my friends who celebrate.

Thinking about branches of candles as well as holiday lights, wondering if the light symbolism takes on extra meaning in the Southern Hemisphere, where the longest day of the year is coming soon.