So much to talk about, but our electricity is going off and on and I don’t know where to begin.  

So I’ll begin with the excuse.  As we were leaving home today thunder and lightning struck at the same moment.   The electricity of course went off, but that was less of a problem for us than for our paranoid neighbor, the daughter of our late beloved holocaust graduate.  She has so little – and, she complains frequently – there are evil folk who break into her flat and steal her past.  She has becoming more and more violent in her accusations.  How could we ease her pain? 

To put it simply, we ran away to spend the afternoon buying odds and ends for our home.  When we came home it was getting dark, but the best I could do was to get together some candles for all of us in case the lights didn’t go back on.  I held back, fearing to give an unreliable person a possible dangerous weapon, but just in time, as I was thinking how to appease and not endanger the situation the lights went back on and Blinken appeared on tv.

In any event his talk would have moved me, but at that very moment I clung to every word he used to alleviate the situation – not to give any one the weapons to damage themselves and others while attempting to alleviate the situation, a situation in which we are threaten with darkness and need to share something of light.