04/01/02
April Angels Day
At first, I thought it a misfortune that my column falls on April 1st, April Fools Day, this week. The ideological world in which I incubated for nearly a decade sought, as it seemed, to make every day April Fools Day by skeptically finding shady subtexts in all things. Therefore, my reflexive thought was to write an ironic, untrustworthy piece in homage to the day.
But I don’t feel like doing that. With Easter just passed and Lent just finished, I’m in a more hopeful mood. So, rather than cynicism, I thought I’d write about belief. Rather than defer to a holiday with the basic theme that, on it, you must be suspicious of those in whom you usually place the most trust, I thought I’d pay tribute to the season’s message of trust. With the intangible anticipation of new life in the air — a bursting forth of which we don’t yet see proof but can feel and know is proximate — I thought I’d write about angels.
This essay has been published in Just Thinking: Volume I, 10/29/01–10/21/02 and is available in Confidence Place: The Timshel Arts Store.
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