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Hanukkah begins tonight, a minor Jewish Holiday morphed into a major one in cultures competing with the magnetism of Christmas for children’s souls – or for consumers’ wallets. A story of a light lasting beyond its life span, a miracle celebrated, and one of civil war, conveniently ignored. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before we settle on sarcastic, let’s celebrate what these holidays during dark times – both by calendar and by historical era – have in common. They do bring light and its cousin, hope, to our lives. Hope for what could be, if enough energy, faith and grace can be mustered or bestowed. Survival, peace, redemption, all on the list. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I thought it would be appropriate to look at light, then, to brighten our day. Much to chose from. Here is an installation that I like watching because it has historical roots in the history of the whaling community of New Bedford, the city of light<\/em> given that its port harbored the whaling ships that provided the blubber for America’s lamps for centuries. Hope for survival<\/em> is surely invoked by the art work, given the fate faced daily of the seamen (many escaped Southern slaves among them.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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