ADVENT 2009

11/29/2009:  at 9 minutes to an early hour in a somewhat square bedroom, one half of its ceiling is dark black, while the other half is gray, with no recognizable way such could happen; and, at midday, two twin shadows against the bathroom wall, one being a solid formed by a tissue partially drawn from a Kleenex box, the other an arch formed by the handle of a nearby basket;

11/30/2009:  in the old lady climbing the front steps to enter St. Mary’s Church in New Haven, placing her large handbag on the 2nd step above the one on which she stands, then climbing 2 steps to stop and repeat the procedure 3 times until she came to the top step when she picked up the handbag and entered; and, later, in the three flower boxes on the 3rd, 5th and 7th steps on the left of the front entrance to Trinity Church on the New Haven Green, with 2 boxes on the right on the 3rd and 7th steps, and in the 2 wreaths on the 2 front doors in the center with 3 wreaths on each of the 3 doors on the entrances to the right and the left; in the plethora of 2s and 3s, the double nature of Christ (divine and human) and the Trinity;

12/01/2009:  in the 7 overhead lights lit among many, which are not, in St. Mary’s Church, along with the 8 lights lit between each of the columns on both sides of the nave, totaling 16, which adds to 7, the Old Testament symbol of completeness; and in the evening in the 2 perfect circles seen from an entry ramp to I 91: a white full moon to the left of a blue circle on an outdoor bank advertising sign with the white “We” of “We offer checking accountability” partially inside;  

12/02/2009:  in the black plastic fork on the sidewalk in the rear of St. Mary’s Church forming a triangle with the church wall and the empty wrapper in the appearance of a “Snickers” candy bar, whose legend read, “Bar Hunger”;

12/03/2009:  in the 2 T.V. monitors for the Jetblue flight schedules in the White Plains, New York Terminal, the cerulean blue with information on the right, occasionally changing to oscillating bands of psychedelic color, and the constant grey and white streaks of visual static in frenzied activity on the left; 

12/04/2008:  in the raindrops leaking 6 seconds apart from the living room ceiling into a bucket on the floor before 9:00 AM and with another series every 7 seconds falling intermittently with series of 6, completeness in the cacophony;  

12/05/2009:  in the 3 teenagers together in front of a Christmas Tree, the top of which bisects a brown rectangle on the wall, perhaps a speaker of the PA system in the Bishop Moore High School Cafeteria in Winter Park, Florida; and, later, in the two reflections on a wine glass at dinner, a perfect circle and an imperfect vertical triangle; 

12/06/2009:  in the 2 sets of fathers at a little league, flag football game, both with 1 father in a white jacket and the other in black and with the 2 referees, each in a shirt of black and white strips; and, later, in the 2 circles under 3 shelves, one of a utility outlet and the other of a black wire, directly above a black, rectangle phone with a square video monitor, standing upright on the floor;

12/07/2009:  in the 2 roadway signs on Route 436 in Orlando, Florida, the shadow of a pole that blots out the “lan” of “Orlando”, splitting the “Or” from the “do” and in the shadow over the “W” on a “Car Wash” sign near the “M” of the “MacDonald” sign; and, later, in a green ball with a vibrating, pale green reflection on the bottom of a backyard pool, as if an attached, underwater butterfly net, which touches the top of the circular black item on the bottom, probably the cap for a drainage system, then drifting by a slight breeze the ball moves to touch a dark green leaf where it stops and, by way of emphasis, repeats the event by moving back for its reflection to touch the black circle;  

12/08/2009: in the 3 Winter Park gas lights on the Villa Siena and in the sum of the positions in the alphabet of Villa is 56, divisible by the terrestrial 4 and of those of Siena is 48, which is divisible by both 3 and 4, the union of spiritual and material;

12/09/2009:  in the “4-WAY” tag on the pole of a stop sign beside the 3 red brake lights of a stopping pickup truck, 2 on either side of the back and 1 in the center above the rear end window of the cabin, confirmed seconds later by the “3’ and the “4” on either side of the orange on a Florida license plate; and in the 2 elevators in the Orlando Airport, one that stops on the 3rd floor, when another ascends from the 1st floor to stop beside the other; and in the 3 Jetblue airplanes lined up side by side outside the terminal;

12/10/2009:  in the charge for 2 books by Amazon of $31.64, which is divisible by 6 whole numbers (1,2,4,7,14 and 28) and in the charge for 3 books by ABEbooks of $41.00, which is a prime number and not divisible by any whole number but only by itself, which equals 1; 

12/11/2009:  in the rattle of the bedroom door by the wind at 1:35 AM and at 1:57 AM and at 2:01 AM and again at 2:29 AM, 2 of which (1:35 and 2:01) add to spiritual numbers (9 and 3 respectively) and the other numbers (1:57 and 2.29) both add to 13 and again to an earth tone 4; and, later, in the small square box in the middle of the road, contending a short time later with the branch in the middle of the road in the shape of an “L”, one part covered with leaves pointing upward to the sky;

12/12/2009:  in the branch leaning against a tree in the form of an arch, a few feet away from a brown, manhole cover exposed in a snow-covered lawn, around which a few feet away are 4 concentric tracks in an arch around the manhole cover and the tree, made by some vehicle;

12/13/2009:  in the circular curl of strand of hair in the wastepaper basket in the bathroom with the 4 bits of green remnants on a sweater from the Christmas Tree, decorated the day before; and in the advertising flashed on a lighted sign, “4 lbs” and “19.99”, whose digits add to 28, the multiple of 4, juxtaposed with the 4 of “4 lbs”, which refer to the 40 years the Exodus Jews journeyed in the desert, the 40 days Moses spent on the mountain and the 40 day fast of Christ in the desert; and, later, at night in the illuminated design of the 16 squares, 4 lines of 4 each, of the left hand door of identical, double garage doors by a side light on a neighboring garage that but the right door appearing sans a design, except for a faint shadow, covering about half of it;

12/14/2009:  in the squeegee, used to scrape the water off the walls after a shower, tucked on a slight angle into the support fixture on the wall, its handle pointing downward to 3 plastic bottles of shampoo and conditioners, which present themselves, standing in a row on the back end of the bath tub, when the shower curtain is pulled away;

12/15/2009:  in the square bandage on the tile floor of the shower stall in the Healthtrax Gym obscuring the cross made by the intersection of 4 tiny tiles; and, later, in the “T-36” on the side of a Dahill Company truck, the “T”, for both the Trinity and terra firma, is in the 20th position of the alphabet, which is divisible by 4 and the “36”, which is divisible by both 3 and 4; 

12/16/2009:  in the darkness of the early morning, in the light from an outdoor lamp on the left side of a front door of a house is on, illuminating the ribs of a vertical, decoration panel, transforming them to rays, while the lamp on the right is not on; and, later, in the brilliant, fixed morning star with flashing lights above it, probably of an airplane moving slowly from the left to the right; and, later, in the large, fallen branch in the parking lot for Macy’s that hangs on a very slender tree branch, gently swaying in the breeze in the shape of a “Y” or a wishing bone at an angle with the ground, its wand pointing to the clear blue, sunny sky;  

12/17/2009:  in the circle in the center of one of 2 small pieces of something, maybe white paper or cardboard, joined together at the corners on the parking lot macadam, and moments later in the popsicle stick on the ground of another section, pointing to a white, circular, cement base on which is a black square mount for a black pole, the top of which is a street light, which is lit;

12/18/2009: in the overhead directional, gate sign at the Minneapolis Airport for Gates F 12 and F 16, where the arrow points to the ceilings and to the sky (the sum of the digits of 12 is 3 and of 16 is 7) and for Gate F 11, the arrow points horizontally to the right; and in the flight NW 2127, which leaves from Gate C 1 (C the 3rd position of the alphabet, for 3 persons in 1 God and the sum of 3 and 1 is 4 for the 4 corners of the world); and in the number “2127”, which is divisible by 3 and the sum of its digits is 12, which is divisible by both 3 and 4; and in the “N” of “NW”, which occupies the 13th position of the alphabet, and the “W”, which occupies the 23rd, both of which are prime numbers and indivisible, but their sum is 36, which is both divisible by 3 and 4; and in the arrival Gate G 3 at the Sacramento Airport, the “G” in the 7th alphabetic position, which is also a prime number, and the sum of 3 and 4, God in the world;

12/19/2009:  in the 4 cups and 4 saucers on one end of a table beside a small, glass vase filled with flowers and at the other end 7 objects, 6 are kitchen articles and a cell phone;

12/20/2009:  in the strand of hair, forming itself into 3 concentric circles, each touching at the same point on the bathroom floor, bisected by the side of 2 square tiles, one of which is blank and the other with 2 lines connecting opposing corners and bisecting each other in the center to form a cross with 3 dots in the north and south intersections and nothing in the east and west sections; 

12/21/2009:  in the flight on the shortest day of the year from gate A 1 on seat 25 D (the number adds to 7 and a letter is the 4th position in the alphabet) in Zone 4 on Flight DL 1170 (the 4th and the 8th positions of the alphabet and the number totals 9) with the further identification of Flight 2318631153, which adds to 33, the life span of Christ, on this 12th month (3 times 4) and this 21st day (3 times 7); 

12/22/2009:  in the 3 brown sections of the barrier along I 97 in new Jersey before the George Washington Bridge, the center having 4 squares, 2 on the top and 2 directly underneath, forming a larger square, with 3 horizontal boxes on both slabs on either side; and in the highway sign half covered on the right with “Bridge” exposed and underneath it, “3 mi”; and, later, in the tracks made in the snow by a bird in a line and then turning around and crossing the line in 2 places to form an 8, the symbol of infinity;

12/23/2009:  in the decorative lights on the roof, which are joined in a line parallel to the street, to form a triangle and below in the 3 circular wreaths with lights on each on the 3 front windows of a house, all lit in the early morning; and, later, in the “Advocate” newspaper bin that leans against the left side of a light pole to form a triangle, above which “ONE WAY” is printed within an arrow pointing to the left at the cross section of 2 streets;

12/24/2009:  in the 8 tile squares on a shower room wall, illuminated by an overhead florescent light, with 2 right triangles illuminated within each tile at either end, as book ends holding the double earth together;