Angels appear...

My friends,

What I'm about to share with you will consolidate MANY of those random thoughts,
feelings, and ideas
which you have, up until NOW,
been afraid of.... embarrassed by....even somehow "in denial" about.....
I have this on excellent authority....
Read carefully.....

There are ANGELS walking among us...
One need only LOOK....
and of course, know the signs....

How will you know when you are in the presence of an ANGEL, you ask ??

Here's the deal :
Pay close attention....

1)  You will IMMEDIATELY LIKE the person....
which will be somewhat of a departure for you,
being that you are inherently suspicious and
 generally GIVE PAUSE before rendering a verdict on a new person...

2) After your first meeting with this particular person,
you will feel a sense of RELIEF, so to speak..
as if the burdens you've been carrying around have somewhat SHIFTED....
(This will be probably be a SUBTLE shift..)

3) You will find yourself incredibly DRAWN to the person....
in a way that you have seldom felt before...
NEEDING their approval....NEEDING their advice....

4) As such...
you will notice a "YEARNING" almost....
to be in their presence...
NOT in a SEXUAL or ROMANTIC way !!
Heavens, NO !!
Rather...
in a FAMILIAL WAY...
like wanting a mother or sister beside you...

5) EACH and EVERY time that you leave this person's side...
it will occur to you that MEETING THEM WAS A GREAT GIFT !!
that you have been literally ENRICHED by their appearance in your life...

6) This person will PUZZLE you at times....
possibly even IRRITATE you with their...
uhhhh....
"WACKINESS" perhaps...
with their EXPLICIT inability to conform to normal routine...
with their inability to be on time....to even show up at all perhaps !!

7) You will SELDOM see this ANGEL....
She will be UNAVAILABLE....
She will even disappear at times...

But make NO mistake  ....
Your ANGEL was sent here to PROTECT YOU...
to LOVE YOU...
to NOURISH A PIECE OF YOUR SOUL...
to be your GUARDIAN....

And here's the thing:
You won't necessarily KNOW for sure that she's an ANGEL.....
 until afterwards...in retrospect....

Heady stuff...

Breaking through...

We paint...and paint...and paint....
until we have callouses on our hands...

And it feels......

to our chagrin and frustration....

 that we are servicing ONLY....

"an exercise in futility"....

We've simply LOST our touch...

We can't do it anymore !

Something happened...

during the night perhaps......

that took away our ability to MAKE THINGS>>>

Our creative self has gone AWOL....

Damn....

Should we...

- take up POTTERY ???

- go back to sleep ???

- throw all the expensive, useless tubes away ???

And then.......

we turn the corner....

on the BOULEVARD OF LIMITATIONS....

and we have LITERALLY broken through....

to yet another, deeper layer of information...
After all....

We held strong,,, 

We endured with tenacity...

We stuck with it tightly...like glue.......like cement...

We clung to our VISION....

even while muddling through to that vision 

with a temporary BLINDFOLD over our eyes....

like the horse in the painting......

And so on.....

The Paint Feels Like Clay...

And in its thick and dense property.....
I begin to see, somehow,
a BREAK THROUGH......
of actual COSMIC proportion.....
And as I continue in my routine effort to
build the scene of "Frivolous Prettiness"...
the ACTUAL history of the brushwork...
begins to shed away ....
as if it were a snakes 2nd skin...
And beneath the coats of "armor" and "power" and GREY......
 are small, morphed, SEED-like entities...
seemingly incarnated SEEDS of REDEMPTION....
And then///////
LO AND BEHOLD.....
 The 'White Brotherhood' appear...
in a haze of magical purity...
They are the EPIC HEALERS...
of all things ill....
and "ill-at-ease", as well...
Mind you, the WHITE is not their SKIN color,
but rather, the color of their TOOLS...
of their LAB COATS...
These WHITE BROTHERS,
 known well to ORGANIC HEALERS AND MYSTICS around the universe.....
 are actually RED and BROWN and YELLOW in tone...
WORKING, as it were, in a veritable assembly line of WHITE LAB COATS...
They lift their GOLDEN HANDS to the canvas.....
and their warmth and honey flow upon and around it....
And so it goes......

Holidays and Disasters...

They are forever intertwined...
The Feasts and the Famines...
The Wonderful days and the Desperate days....
One moment we are sitting on the edge of our seats...
waiting for literal TERROR to pounce....
And the next,,,
 we are carving up a roasted bird and singing Hallelujah...
We are HOSTILE and CRAZY during ELECTIONS...
and Trick-or-Treating at the same time..
The human spirit is certainly INDEFATIGABLE...
and MALLEABLE as well really....
We are camelions...
GREEN camelions...
waiting in the brush....
camouflaged by our ever-changing skin color..
for the inevitable, NEXT shoe to drop...
Will we all be HISTORY in three weeks ??
Was it the Mayans who made the prediction ?
Because...
according to this little girl's recollection...
the time for Messiah to come , as proffered in Judaism...
seems like precisely what's happening NOW...
We've got dangerously, INCLEMENT WEATHER..
WAR...
PESTILENCE....
Why don't WE get the credit ??
Well.....
Credit may not be the best word...
as the checks and balances of EVERYTHING,...
will pretty much be obliterated anyway...
Right ??
So...
Eat the Cranberries...They're filled with Antioxidants...
Get high on TRYPTOPHAN...
Watch FOOTBALL 'til it hurts....
Pretend that you actually LIKE Pumpkin Pie....
Enjoy and put up with your nuclear and extended families...
Wear your loveliest cashmere...
and GIVE THANKS....
for the human condition...
for the astounding beauty of its VAST IMPERFECTION...

Happy Thanksgiving...

All in all....

even with a hiccup or two ...(or 1000 !) on the road to wherever it is that we're going....
it would appear that ALL IS, in fact, WELL....
It is compelling.... riveting really.... that in times of need one can
literally,
palpably,
 FEEL the Grace of God around them...
next to them...inside of them even...
OR....
Perhaps it's simply that we don't LOOK  for Him when life is going smoothly...
So...
What if we WERE to look ?
to open our sleepy eyes ?
Would we not only FEEL Him, but SEE him as well ??
What do you suppose He would look like ?
Anthropomorphic  terms?
for our benefit...
to aid in our LIMITED understanding of "all things metaphysical"..
Something we can RELATE to ?
Why are the times so unbelievably CHALLENGING ?
Is this a Divine Test of some sort...
Pondering...Pondering...

This feels different somehow..

This time...
the WAY in which we've been attacked...
in which ISRAEL has been attacked...
feels, somehow, painfully distinguishable from the myriad other times....
The world seems to be teetering on the edge of some gargantuan abyss...
falling into a black, smoldering hole.....of unrest...
Something has SHIFTED....perhaps subtly...perhaps GLARINGLY....
There are too many EVENTS....
too many EARTH SHATTERING events...
to deem it "coincidence"...
It begs the pervasive and open-ended question:
WHAT HAPPENS NOW ?
We've muddled through DISASTROUS WEATHER...
BEYOND DISASTROUS ELECTIONS....
and now....
We are attacked....with the world screaming "WE HATE YOU!" in our ears...
LOUDLY.... FRIGHTENINGLY....
And we, yet again, are FORCED to use FORCE...
in order to merely survive....

Is this God's way of finally putting His foot down ?
Has He just about HAD IT with us ?
What does the immediate future hold ?
When will the madness STOP ?

Here we are, yet again....

What is it, my friends...
that makes the entire world want us to fall off a cliff ??
I mean..
WHAT EXACTLY did we do to them anyway ??
Is it our BRAINS that they envy ?
Our ACCOMPLISHMENTS perhaps ??
Our FEARLESSNESS ??
Is ENVY even the appropriate word ?
Or is it just plain old DISDAIN ?
What, prey tell....makes us SO DAMN HATE-ABLE ??
We are SHOT AT....SUICIDE BOMBED....TARGETED FOREVER...
and ONE LITTLE shot BACK from us...(albeit a GOOD one!)...
and they put us right back in line for the GAS CHAMBERS !!!!
WHY ??
WHY ??
They laugh at our NOSES and our ASSES and our GEFILTE FISH APPETIZERS...
They scoff at our HEAD COVERINGS and our HOLIDAYS...
and at just our general DEFIANCE at being scoffed at...
WHY ??
WHY ??
What is it that makes them hate us so much ??