ADVENT 1993

11/28/1993:  in the lamp with a white lampshade, beside a blue lava lamp to its right and behind it, through the window, the predominant red stripes of an American flag, fluttering in the rain - the wisdom of the Holy Spirit beside the Mercy of God, the Father, and the saving blood of Christ - ; later in the movable cabinet door in the kitchen becoming unhinged, the top protruding piece forming a right triangle with the bottom, reflected in the red “A” of the

AL    RM
GUARD

sign, on the back door, on the left, and in the middle the emergency sign, with 911 backwards; underlined later by St. Mark in the Gospel for the day: “I tell you what I tell all of them: ‘Be on Guard.’”;

11/29/1993:  in the early morning, in a round white dish, which slips into the dishwater and breaks, while thinking about a son who might have a drinking problem, which minutes later is made whole in the white and radiant harvest moon in the dark sky;  

11-30-1993:  in the two wooden saw-horses, two A shaped triangles on each, on the side walk, confirmed by the round top of a drink container in the middle of the road and the full moon overhead; and, later, in the circle of a drop of coffee from a thermos, held while turning around to lock a door;

12/01/1993:  in the $39.31 rung up at the Station # 17 in the Super Stop and Shop supermarket and in the “Emergency” sign under the “4 Way” sign

12/02/1993:  in the back of a highway sign, split in two by a green band from one corner to its opposite, dividing it into two silver triangles, lying on its face, a set of legs on only one side, at a 90 degree angle, another a triangle, confirmed by two more: in the skeleton of an addition to a house and in a piece of apple on the dashboard;

12/03/1993:  in the blue memorial candles in the Immaculate Conception Church, lit in the form of a key, under the statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and, to the left of an intervening pillar, five candles in a line, one on the left and four on the right;

12/04/1993:  in the three small pieces of hair on the bathroom sink as a “C”, confirmed by another “C” of dirt on the near sighted section of the bifocals; 

12/05/1993:  in the story of a 3 year old child who survived a fall from the nineteenth story of a building, landing on a flower bed, highlighted by the blinking lights of a repair truck beside a fallen evergreen tree that apparently knocked out the street lights; and moments later in the 3 sets of Christmas decoration lights on the New Haven Green; a street light surrounded by a halo of small red lights, beside a street light with a halo unlit , beside a lighted halo and an unlit street light;    

12/06/1993:  in the 4 shoes on the floor to which the line formed by a cough drop and a coin, dropped by chance, point; and, later, in the 4 pillows on a couch, announced by a piece of popcorn on the adjoining seat; and in the 4 shoes leaning against the wall beside the back door; and, later, in the 8 Canadian geese flying south in a line and another beside it in the front, forming a check sign;

12/07/1993:  in the triangle made by the edges of a paper towel with the shelf and in the “D” and “O”, the only letters exposed after a comb accidently fell on the “Detetto” label of a bathroom scale: “Deus, Omnipotenti”;

12/08/1993:  in the shadow of “C” covering the word “wait” of a roadside sign, and moments later in the 3 rolls of white paper as though rugs, protruding from the trunk of a truck, with plastic protecting wrappers, at the ends of the one on left and in the center, unfastened and flapping in the wind, covering the round center section of the center roll every few seconds; and, later, in the 4 light bulbs over the entrance of St. Mary’s Church, as a cross, 2 lit and 2 unlit; and in the 4 cords, from the door of a Saturn car, touching the ground, the one on the left an inverted “Y”, forming a triangle with the ground and mirroring half its Saturn logo; and in the square newsletter suspended halfway down in a round trash can and parallel to the ground, after having been tossed into it;   

12/09/1993:  in the piece of newspaper that jumps quickly from the ground, in the form of a triangle; and in the 3 trucks in a row, the first without mud flaps, the second with two in white with “Edart” on each, and the 3rd with two in white with “Dempsey” written on the right one and nothing on the left one; and in the crane at a 45 degree angle, announced by flashing lights on the roof of a utility vehicle in the early morning darkness; and in the three flocks of small birds that settle in the tree to the right while a single large bird settles in the tree to the left;    

12/10/1993:  in the 3 triangles on the ceiling of the St. Thomas Church above the altar, with two fans with 3 blades and 4 lights in a square, 3 of which are lit, while underneath Handel’s “Messiah” is performed;

12/11/1993:  in the remaining part on a billboard the 3 lower case “a”s in a metal circle, with the base of a hockey stick crossing it; and in the piece of paper as a circle with a tail in the center of a page of Chapter XX of “Cloud of Unknowing”, seen from the corner of the eye that disappears when looked at directly;

12/12/1993:  in the remaining part in the word, “orb”, appearing by chance after opening the dictionary, intending to look up the definition of another word, which completes the sentence: “He listened to the unseen …”; and in the 3 Sucrets on the bathroom floor after its container had fallen with 9 others under it; and in the red circle of blood, the right half half- moon on a Cross pencil, under the square logo of the Eastern Press, with a red “E” on the right half; and in the cross on the head of a young black girl, her 4 pigtails having pulled her hair so tightly at a performance of “Black Nativity”;   

12/13/1993:  in the license plates of two white trucks, one behind the other: “521 SW”, on the first, the sum of the numbers on the left represents the world and “Savior of the World” on the right and “884 CSU”, on the second, the 3 number signs of the world on the left and “Christ”, Savior of the Universe” on the right, while on the left rear door, a black wheel with a white hub cap;

12/14/1993:  in the triangle of banana peel tossed in the compost pile; and in the two elastic bands from a bunch fastened together as the figure 8, pulled from a container at night after a full day in the office, while thinking how tiring business can be;

12/15/1993:  in the 3 bed pillows thrown at random the night before, stacked up one in back of another against a chair, forming 3 triangles; and in the 3 rear lights of cars seen as a truck with one headlight passes them and then allows another headlight to be seen in the opposite direction when it exits from the road; the 3 morph into 4; and, in the black rectangle, in the upper left hand corner of the Shawmut Bank billboard advertisement of the for a credit card, pointing to the face of an Indian in the lower right, as the street light opposite it goes dark;

12/16/1993:  in the flashing lights of 3 police cars on the right hand shoulder of I95 in the early morning, announced by the flashing lights of 2 smokestack on the left; and, in the evening, on the same turnpike at about the same place, in the opposite direction, a road sign with large silver initials in graffiti covering the bottom third directly under “Be Prepared”;

12/17/1993:  in the 3 small bumper stickers on the rear of a car on I91: a white cross on the right , “AAA” in the center, and the flag of Canada on the right, which recall the letters on the license plates of 3 cars parked side by side in the parking lot of the Waterbury Hospital a few days before: “BYB” for “Bring Your Booze” on the left, “AAA” in the center, and “CS” on the right for “Christ, the Savoir”; and, later, in the square roadway directional sign, tilted as a diamond with 7 reflectors inside; and in the car with 3 headlights on the left and 1 on the right that appears while thinking: “God does not speak to mankind as He did to Abraham and to Moses, because there is no reason to do so, but He is ever present.”;

12/18/1993:  in the green triangle where the billboard paper has come unglued of the notice of the opening for the newly constructed Jewish Community Center, beside the judgment: “Nothing else comes close”, in green;

12/19/1993:  in the neon “GAR” of the Lite Gear sign, which are lit for God, the Almighty, the Rex (King), with the “e” for earth flickering and the other letters unlit;

12/20/1993: in the identification number on the shirt tag of the cleaners: “BV 1029”: “God bought Victory”, with 21, the sum of the digits (10 + 2 + 9), which added together again is 3; and, later, in the 13.845 gallons of gas recorded on the gasoline pump, which total another 21;  

12/21/1993: in the 3 leaves on the ground pointing to 4 more in a row, on the shortest day of the year; confirmed a few hundred feet beyond by a triangle of cardboard on the ground beside a pencil;  

12/22/1993:  in the cross of lights on the grill of a truck passing on the right and seen in the right rear view mirror, just as Bach’s Cantata # 67 about “Doubting Thomas” on a radio ends; 

12/23/1993: in the telephone number n the Poland Spring Water Truck:

                                                              1 - 800 - 950 - 9395

The sum of the digits set between within the dashes is 11146, which adds again to 13, the 3 persons in 1 God; and, later, in the temperature in Fahrenheit and in Celsius and the current time that is flashed successfully from a sign on a building: 33 degrees, then 2 degrees, then 5:59 PM, for Almighty, Christ, the second person of the Holy Trinity, and the digits of the time add to nineteen, which in turn adds to 10 and then to 1, to God;

12/24/1993:  in the circle of the “Ultimate Seal” sticker on an auto window, confirmed by the lid of a coffee container on the ground; and, later, in the same spot, another auto with a Batman sticker and a Christmas shopping bag of Tequila in the back seat;