Diwali: A thrill for all to experience - My Turn
Every November, for at least the last six, our campus community has been blessed by the color, pageantry and warmth of the Hindu New Year celebration called Diwali. This annual event has become a tradition for me as well as for my family to support and to attend. Over the years, we have enjoyed the music, the lights and the dancing, sometimes we have even joined in. We have also consumed more samosas than I care to divulge. Each time we are thrilled to be there and to once again have the opportunity to witness such an extraordinary thing. We, like many others who are not Hindu ourselves, are happily drawn to it and we count on it happening every year. This year was no different, with one exception. This year there was an air of relief and release about many of us who were in attendance on Nov. 3. We were relieved to be thinking of something other than Sept 11 and we were content to at long last participate, even in the smallest of ways in the remarkable act of releasing our joy. It is the latter that I wish to spend a little time with here.