ADVENT 2015

 

11/29/2015: in the 12:39 AM on the clock, seen after being awakened by 2 faint noises, as though creaks of wood somewhere made by the wind, with the hour and the minute are multiples of 3, the blessed Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit;

11/30/2015: in the early morning on Edgewood Avenue, a perfect, inverted triangle by the 2 red stop lights and the red break-light in the middle of the rear window of an auto idling below, the bottom half of the auto partially hidden on the slope of a hill and, then, an upright triangle by the rear window break-light and the 2 lower red break-end lights on either end, when the entire auto becomes visible, before the auto drives off, as the stop lights turn green; and, later, in the $60.21 cost of the package of Harney’s green tea, the sum of which is 9 (3 plus 3 plus 3);

12/01/2015: in the many circles of the items around 3 different nails on a garage wall: the 9 circles of a wire below the 18 circles of a rope (9 times 2) and beside the 7 circles of a chord, for the 7 branched Menorah used in the ancient Temple;

12/02/2015: in the 2 adjacent front porches, the left lit up by a string of white lights and the right cordoned off by a contractor’s protective tape; and, later, in the 3 ceramic pieces, broken from a ceramic work of art by a cleaning lady who accidently struck it, probably with the wand of a vacuum cleaner;

12/03/2015: in 49 items of clothing removed from the washing machine (7 times 7) (the 7 messages to the 7 Christian churches in the Book of Revelation); and, later, in the many holy numbers on an ATM receipt at a Chase branch office:

the 4 digits of the Sequence # 5324 add to 14 (7 times 2)
the 4 digits of the Checking Account # 6152 add to 14
the 6 digits of the date (12/03/15) add to 30 (3 times 10)
the 4 digits of the time of the transaction (05:45 AM) add to 14
the 3 digits of the street number of the branch, 234, add to 9
the 13 digits of the AID # A0000000980840 add to 29 and with 1
for A, the first letter in the alphabet, add to 30, in company with 9 zeros;

12/04/2015: in the square formed by 4 smaller, square tiles on the locker-room floor of the Albertus Magnus College Gymnasium, surrounded by an irregular, rusty circle, from a former, round bench-leg, that passes through 8 (4 times 2) surrounding, smaller squares, the 4 directions of north, south, east and west;

12/05/2015: in the tear of the wallpaper in Our Lady of the Assumption Church, under the 11th Station of the Cross, “Jesus takes his Cross”, that presages the veil of the Sanctuary, which will be torn in two from top to bottom at 3:00 PM on Good Friday; and, later, in the 3 drops of water for faith, hope and love, at 9:07 AM on the roof of a car under the Chase car port, despite it being a sunny day;

12/06/2015: [no sightings today]

12/07/2015: in the 2 and 99 or 2.99 on a gold ticket or receipt for something, lying in the gutter outside Saint Brendan’s Church, partially covered with leaves and dirt and echoed in the 2 lit candles on the altar inside the church or the 2 lit candles of the Advent Wreath and the 9 lit candles of the votive candle-rack;

12/08/2015: in the 3 tubes linked by construction tape to form a triangle over a destroyed section of a sidewalk; and, later, in the garden-hose in a back-yard, twisted into 12 circles, (3 times 4) (the hallowed Triad in and with Ezekiel’s the lion, ox, man, and eagle);

12/09/2015: in the photo of an outside light lit at night beside a neighbor’s front door, the white light in its center, surrounded by darkness, the light of the lamp having serving as the flash for a camera, to which a white ticket to a musical performance points that was tossed onto the kitchen table;

12/10/2015: in the 2 exposed bricks above the 12th Station of the Cross, the crucifixion of Christ, on the cream-colored wall of the chapel in Saint Aedan’s School and the blue square in a stained-glass, overhead window, probably a representation of a book, tipped at a 45 degree angle; and, later, in the 10 sets each with 3 faucets under the white protective-covering over the pumps of the Mobil Station where Routes 63 and 69 (each digit a multiple of 3) meet to form a V, the sum of the alphabetic positions of Mobil being 49 (the blessed Troika and the 4 dimensions – height, width, length and space-time – of the universe times itself);

12/11/2015: in the bright light in the early, misty morning, seemingly from a third floor window of a house across the street, to which the top half of a crane in the back of a truck points, as though the North Star had descended to obliterate the darkness; later, in a somewhat, clearer morning, there is a vacant lot: there is no house and no light;

12/12/2015: in the black Polar Bear can standing beside the larger white Five Guys styrofoam cup in asphalt parking-lot, as if night were jousting with day;

12/13/2015: in the 3 birds, maybe sea gulls, that fly in turn to perch on a globe, probably a flood light near a shopping mall and in the cross in the distance, a likely weather vane on the steeple of a school;

12/14/2015: in the 9 (the divine Trident cubed) candles lit in St. Brendan’s Church, 2 on the altar, 3 on the Advent Wreath for this the 3rd week of Advent, and 4 in the votive candle-rack;

12/15/2015: in the “light trucks”, two words on a torn piece of a wall-poster for the Access Auto Tire shop, an ersatz triangle, the spiritual contending with the mundane;

12/16/2015: in the black, inverted V of a highway directional sign, pointing both to the blank, square piece of metal on a pole beside it and to a reservoir across the street; and, later, in the 3rd attempt to close a garage door with a remote control when 3 bright, backyard lights of a neighbor’s house flash on for a few moments;

12/17/2015: in the 42 (3 times 14) Christmas cards written at random, divine Trinity and the genealogy of Christ in the Gospel for today’s Mass:

the 14 generations from Abraham to David,
the 14 generations from David to the Babylonian exile,
the 14 generations from the Babylonian exile to Christ;

12/18/2015: in the lights of an outdoor sign, similar to those reporting the temperature and/or the time, which communicate no message, but only letters and parts of letters until a distinct 7 appears and remains for several seconds, perfection amid chaos;

12/19/2015: in the price of 2 purchases made today of $20.25 for groceries and $105.10 for dinner, of which the digits of the former add to 9 and the latter to 7;

12/20/2015: in the 12 corrections made to a sonnet earlier in the day and reviewed by an impulse later in the afternoon, identified as G-40, the 40th entry of the G series, the G for God and the 40 for the 40 years the Israelis spent in the desert and the 40 days Christ spent in the desert;

12/21/2015: in the 11 corrections make yesterday, not the incorrect 12, for the 11 faithful Apostles; and in the small crucifix on the roof of Christ Church to which points the white drain-pipe on the side of its nearby convent, askew at an approximate angle of 70 degrees, noticed moments after 2 ambulances rushed by with sirens blaring;

12/22/2015: in the 2 traffic signs, one on either side of Route 34 (the digits add to 7), each with 2 lights on either side, designed to inspire driving caution, with the 2 lights on the left sign flashing and only 1 on the right, announced by the blinking lights on a truck passing by; and, later, in an outdoor sign, seen before on December 18, again disabled, which displays only a 1 and a 2, for the 12 Apostles, announced by the roof-lights of another truck;

12/23/2015: in the “30” that appears at 2:33 PM on a 25 miles-per-hour traffic sign and, later, arriving at home at 3:09 PM, in the 3 bags from visits to a bank, package store and grocery store;

12/24/2015: in the piece of paper, black on the outside and white on the inside where there appears to be an outline of an angel, folded at the center and tacked a telephone pole, flapping back or forth and finally coming together to form a black, stationary square perpendicular to the pole, above an X in chalk, a decussate cross, similar to one that appears on the Flag of Scotland, worshiped as the cross on which Saint Andrew was supposed to have been crucified;