ADVENT 2012

12/02/2012: in the 3 faint groans, probably of the water system before dawn, and in the 3 cracks, probably of wood as it settles in an old home, as the three virtues of Faith, Hope and Charity

12/03/2012: in the 3 brown spots on a white bathroom rug, probably of dirt, forming a near-perfect equilateral triangle; and later in the troika of sounds in an auto repair shop, from the constant banging in an auto engine outside as of a fly wheel with a loosened part, and from an auto engine as it is driven into the shop, and from the motor of something inside the shop, perhaps of a heating unit

12/04/2012: in the 7 black crows sitting in a leafless maple tree at 7:00 AM, the gifts of the Holy Spirit: Prophesy, Serving, Teaching, Exhortation, Contributing, Leadership and Mercy

12/05/2012: in the 7 triangular flags, between the flag for the 3rd lane and for the 4th lane, over a swimming pool, the 6th flag being torn, the number often used to represent imperfection, compared to the Biblical perfection of 7, appearing again in the 7 loaves of bread in the Gospel passage for today’s mass, (Matthew 15: 29-37), that Christ turned into a sufficient supply to satisfy the hunger of a great crowd, with the remainder filling 7 baskets

12/06/2012: in the sharp edge of a crushed, plastic container of about 3 by ½ inches in the gutter of Edgewood Avenue that reflects the red of the nearby traffic-light and points at an angle of approximately 40 degrees to the only lighted window in the large house across the street in the early morning; and minutes later in the 7 lights of a home on Ellsworth Avenue, with 7 windows and an attached garage, lit 6 candles in each of 6 windows and a light over the door of the garage, with the other window dark

12/07/2012: in the white plastic bag in the form of a dove resting on the street, confirmed minutes later in the Dove on the piece of soap wrapper on a gym floor; and later in the 4 red traffic-lights on Prospect Street, the 4 corners of the world, stopping traffic before 6 objects hanging from the support for said lights, each wrapped in a black plastic bag, to contemplate the ways of the world, before the lights turn to green allowing traffic to move forward, as though the 4 Gospels; and still later in the sign with a large, smiling face for the Smiling Entertainment Company on a shabby, vacant building on the Boston Post Road, above the notice: “Closed, going out of business”

12/08/2012: in the 3 rugs each rolled into a tube on top of 3 blue mattresses stacked by the side of Edgewood Avenue, the Renaissance color for grace

12/09/2012: in the score, “Saints 13, Giants 35”, of a football game between the New York Giants and the New Orleans Saints, seen on T.V. at 6:30 PM, totaling 48, a number divisible by 3, and 30 minutes later in the score “Saints 27, Giants 42”, totaling 69, also divisible by 3

12/10/2012: in the crucifix formed in the early morning by the vertical, dark front-porch pillar of a home on Winchester Avenue and the horizontal shadow of the mantle above the front door, seen from across the street, with the halo of light suffused from a bulb above the mantle but hidden by the pole, beside a house that seems to have sustained fire damage

12/11/2012: in the erratic, green line on Edgewood Avenue in the early morning, reflected by a green traffic-light on the wet, black tar, applied to cover holes and ruptures, as though an aerial photo of a section of the Colorado River, with the 2 pedestrian, red stop-lights on either side of the street as sides of the Grand Canyon

12/12/2012: in the gym-locker number, chosen at random, “853”, the sum of which is 16 and again is 7, and are the reverse of the 4th and 5th and 6th numbers of the Fibonacci Series, which stretches to infinity; and later in the 2 bordered up-windows, side by side, of an abandoned store on the corner of Sheldon and Bassett Streets, the right is green, the Renaissance color for faith, and the other a natural, faded grey; and even later the edge of a crumpled piece of paper, pointing at 90 degrees to heaven, in a refuge can at an EXXON station, on top of another piece of paper, a High Roller lotto ticket, probably of an unlucky number

12/13/2012: in the piece of white, almost-round, wet soap that sticks to the side of the black, plastic liner of a garbage container after having been thrown into it, a full moon in a midnight sky, and in the 2 almost-round mounds of soap subs on the tile floor, each nearly covering a small square piece of tile, 24 squares apart, a number divisible by both 3 and 4, when within minutes one vanishes, together with the soapy moon

12/14/2012: in the only 3 lighted windows on the 3rd floor of a house on Edgewood Avenue at 5:45 AM, 3 quarters after 5, the middle window having a pair of drapes joined at the top and pulled to either side to form a lighted triangle; and later in the arrow on the piece of a Speedo, athletic-equipment package on the floor of a locker room, which points to the only 2 open, horizontal locker doors in a wall of lockers, to the 2 natures of Christ, true God and true man

12/15/2012: in the front of a house with ivy growing on the right half and paint peeling off the other side; and in the cost of stamps at a post office branch: $96.96, the amount on the right equaling the amount on the left, with every digit divisible by 3; and much later in the “exx” of an EXXON sign, 3 brightly lit red letters, which is pronounced as “x”, an abbreviation of Christ, as in “Xmass”, the serene mitigating the dark “on”, meaning “onward, forward (in space, time or condition)”, when used as an adverb In him was life and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness and the darkness grasps it not. [John, I, 4-5]

12/16/2012: in the 3 circles in a bathroom waste-paper basket, 2 white, plastic, spring-water bottle caps and a strand of dental floss that has formed itself into a perfect circle

12/17/2012: in the circle of wire hung on the fence of the dog pound with a white, square item attached to another section of the fence, to present a conjunction of the seen with the unseen; and later in the small, white, square piece of paper stuck on the black, circular rim of a metal, trash container

12/18/2012: in the green, rectangular piece of paper, probably some sort of notice, tacked at its top center to a telephone pole, with 2 free edges that bend forward to form a green, isosceles triangle; and soon after in the 3 pennies that have fallen onto a car seat to call attention to a crumpled grocery-store receipt tucked into the back of the seat and dated 10/01/2012, the sum of whose digits is 7, and recording a payment of $2.75, which adds to 14 for the 14 generations from Abraham to David and the 14 generations from David to the Babylonian deportation and the 14 generations from the Babylonian deportation to Christ

12/19/2011: in the 3 lights on the front of a home on Ellsworth Avenue that on closer inspection appears to be 1 light with a reflection on 2 nearby, dark windows of walls perpendicular to each other; and in the 2 billboards along I91, the larger an advertisement for Gift Certificates while the nearby, the smaller is blank; and later in the handful of 21 pistachios, the product of 3 and 7, scooped from a jar, which at first seemed to be 22 until one was found to be a shell

12/20/2012: in the label for an IZOD product, now stuck to a bench in an Albertus Magnum College locker room, with a small edge upright as a triangle, which could stand for Iesu zelotes ostium décor, in Latin, which translates to Zealous Jesus is the door to grace; and later at night in the 3 policemen standing side by side in a row facing the Whalley Avenue like blue statues beside 2 parked police cars with red lights flashing while across the street a sedan with flashing parking-lights

12/21/2012: in the equilateral triangle in St. Mary’s Church, made by the edge of the card for new translations of several prayers, tucked at an angle into the hymnal holder on the back of the pew in an almost-equal distance from an older woman in a front pew and a younger woman in a pew behind, both dressed in black, this being the longest night of the year; and later in the 3 unrelated events that happen within a few minutes, related by their randomness: an empty water bottle lifting itself from a dashboard holder and falling to the floor, then a plastic cell-phone sliding on a leather car-seat to hit the back with a bang, as if metal pieces struck each other but none in are sight, and an open umbrella tumbles across the street in the wind with no owner in sight

12/22/2012: in the empty, plastic water pointing to Tundra, the model name of the red, Ford pickup truck, beside its white license plate with a prominent 9 and X; and later in the 3 letters (J, r, a) that have fallen off the Jenny Craig sign, the 7 other letters remaining in place

12/23/2012: in a triangle in a window by a curtain pulled back at the bottom to the right side, splitting the window with a diagonal, which also has a gold wreath stuck in the middle with 2 tails, much like a memorable emblem of ribbon in the shape of an oval with its ends crossed at the bottom to support a campaign to eradicate some disease

12/24/2012: in the small, red crucifix in a white square, probably a label of an overcoat, placed at random over the back of a pew, and in the black crucifix among other objects on the back of a warm up jacket of a man in Saint Mary’s Church on Hillhouse Avenue