Go away blackest, darkest night
Friday night was the Lantern Walk at Tin’s Waldorf school. This was his/our third year doing the ritual and it has become so ingrained in him as an annual that he thinks of the Lantern Walk in the same list as Hanukkah, his birthday, his homecoming anniversary, etc. We sing songs and make a paper lantern from the painting that the kids do and then on the night of the Lantern Walk, the kids carry the lanterns in the darkness of the evening around the school and back inside for a puppet show about a lantern that helps light others’ way.
Like Hanukkah, like Diwali, like Christmas and Kwanza – these are all rituals to help us tolerate the darkness that descends on us this time of year. It warms our soul, which in turn warms our heart.
Go away blackest, darkest night
Go away
Give way to light