Triumph of Light over Darkness

I think it's just a little ironic in the early weeks of Eastern Standard Time in the Land of the Round Doorknobs (a/k/a 'I love that it gets dark at 4:30 in the afternoon') that this past Sunday was Diwali.

I'd read about it, but so insular has my life been for seven plus decades, I knew next to nothing about it in terms of origin, meaning and significance.

I think Grandma was right; the wider you open your eyes, the more you see.
-bill kenny