The proper response, as Hanukkah teaches,
is not to curse the darkness but to light a candle.
~ Irving Greenberg in THE JEWISH WAY
Now at last the first snow falls
like a blanket upon dim powers.
Keep the fire alive now
and do not disturb the sleep
of roots and seeds...
The shining winter sky
is close enough to touch;
and you too are this sky.
No reason to distinguish.
For all the stars flow through your veins.