darkness is only driven out with light

“I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all.” - Richard Wright
I am channeling the Amish currently, and appropriately, as I'm off to visit their Pennsylvania hometowns. Close to a week without electricity in an outer borough in the city that calls itself the "center of the world." Perhaps the news vans on my block (that have just now--four days later--awakened to the rather extensive predicament my hometown finds itself in) can bring us back into the twenty-first century by the time I return.