Closure
My six-year-old granddaughter is growing up... and getting quite good at the eye-hand coordination fostered by Minecraft, the computer game depicted on her tee-shirt, and the simple act of lighting the Chanukah candles... all by herself. Well, not quite solo: I lit the Shamash candle, the lead taper that lights the others, but tonight, I gave that one immediately to her for the honor of illuminating the other eight. She did wonderfully well at the task and didn't once ask for my hand to guide her. It's there and ready to do so... honored and humbled to do so... but on this, the last night of the Festival of Lights and, of course, 2016, I wasn't needed. That's a good thing. May the growing increasingly less necessary continue in the coming year! Amen.