Angel – Heather Choate Davis

One of the voices of Elijah

The epigram for Elijah & the SAT is from a song lyric by Kate Campbell: We need an older angel If we’re going to make it through One who’s been around this block we’re on A time or two There is another song of Kate’s which was, for me, the soundtrack to the writing ofContinue reading “One of the voices of Elijah”

Let it be so

This early 20th-century painting of the annunciation seems to me to transcend time and place. This Mary could be any woman, this angel the messenger of any sort of epiphany— a new wisdom, a haunting reversal, clarity alone in the midnight hours. The sort of inescapable truth about our lives to which we can onlyContinue reading “Let it be so”