Happy Diwali!
This five-day festival symbolizes the victory of light over darkness, knowledge over ignorance, and good over evil. It is a time for cleaning, decorating, and lighting homes with diyas (oil lamps) to welcome prosperity and dispel negativity.
More on Diwali:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diwali
Wishing everyone here in the East a very #HappyDhanteras 
May Shri Lakshmi bless all with prosperity, abundance and good health 
@JenniferJorgenson Good stuff, Jennifer. Would also welcome your take on #Lakshmi We could use an abundance of everything right now -- beauty, joy, solidarity, peace. And an end to patriarchy. 
Lakshmi (or Laksmi) is the Hindu goddess of wealth, good fortune, youth, and beauty. https://www.worldhistory.org/Lakshmi/ #History #Hinduism #Lakshmi
Flying into #Superb_Owl Sunday like #Lakshmi on her #owl!
The Goddess Lakshmi on Her Owl Vehicle (Vahana)
West Bengal, #India, 20th century
Metal alloy resin-thread technique, a regional variation of lost-wax casting (dhokra)
17.5 × 9.5 × 9.2 cm
Philadelphia Museum of Art collection: https://philamuseum.org/collection/object/88032
