Light! (Raquel)
December 17, 2007 by sharppointythings
 I now have a light in my room again. To be technically accurate, I already had a light in my room. But for the last couple of years it’s been a desk lamp on the other side of the room from my door. This means that: (a) the lamp plug has been in permanent residence in the outlet so that I can either charge my palm pilot or listen to cassettes, but not both at the same time, (b) if my light isn’t already on when it’s dark and I walk into my room I have to navigate through all my precariously piled stuff to turn the light on, and (c) I can only have light on one part of the room at a time, and some parts just don’t light well at all.
But no more! As of today I have a fully functional ceiling light. It turns on and off by the switch right outside my door! (Yeah, the switch is outside my door. It’s a funky wiring thing…) It lights the whole room! At once! Yay!!! So now I have a door and a light!
This is a different concept of light than what you’re referring to, but at least it’s a fitting tribute for one who has battled both darkness and the lack of a working door:
http://poetry.eserver.org/light-brigade.html
PS I apologize if you have to cut and paste the link into a new window. Your blog doesn’t load properly on my computer, so I can’t tell if there’s a hyperlink tool that I’m just not seeing.