Angels Among Us

A dear friend lent me her copy of Sophy Burnham's book- "A Book of Angels" originally published in 1990 it was rereleased I believe in 1995. ISBN 0345400577 An excellent book, one I highly recommend on your quest to recognize the angels all around us.

Lately I've been seeing angels everywhere, books, figurines; they're all around me. They're all around you. You don't need to look for the angels with gossamer wings each day, they appear in many other forms as well - especially if you learn how to recognize them when they appear.

Handel (who wrote the Messiah) saw angels- and heard them.
http://www.beliefnet.com/story/196/story_19609_1.html?WT.mc_id=NL24

William Blake saw them as well.
http://www.beliefnet.com/story/196/story_19608_1.html

Who are your angels?

And in other news- we seem to have a skunk in our neighborhood. Really. There was a ruckus in my backyard late last night and I thought maybe a stray cat. Well! When I woke up at 5:30 a.m. this morning I could smell the skunk. -And we live in a metropolitan area, which of course means nothing to the skunk. My neighbor just hopes the skunk doesn't take up residence near his pond. I hope our cat doesn't meet it.

All I can think of this morning is the PBS spot where there's a skunk ambling along the sidewalk as it walks up to a house, goes in through the cat door, up the stairs and snuggles with the man sleeping in the bed. Then the camera pans to the family photo next to the bed and you realize that the skunk has been descented (one hopes) and is the family pet. I believe the caption is something along the lines of "things are never as they seem". I'll say.

I ask you- can a skunk be an angel? Hmm.... Have a great day and may you meet only unscented skunks!