Blogopus hasn’t featured a new resident of The Octopus Garden in a while. Meet Chris’s Octoangel. He has eight blue wings and swims in a tempera paint sea—or is that a cherubic blue sky?
And while some may argue that angels aren’t created, but simply are, Chris’s Octoangel began as a teeny tiny “jellypus,” so perhaps it’s about vision: discarding our blinders, refusing to allow certain boundaries to define our scope, and seeing what’s possible in what is merely physical…
Here are a few inspiring, unusual, and amusing observations about angels…
I ain’t good-lookin’, but I’m somebody’s angel child.
—Bessie Smith
Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in,
you can’t expect an angel to look out.
—B.C. Forbes
I feel safe in white because, deep down inside, I’m an angel.
—Puff Daddy
We are each of us angels with only one wing,
and we can only fly by embracing one another.
—Luciano de Crescenzo
The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly.
—G.K. Chesterton
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
—Michelangelo
Angels have no philosophy but love.
—Terri Guillemets
Outside the open window
The morning air is all awash with angels.
—Richard Wilbur
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Ah! Now I see two angels:
The ocean and the sky’s the limit…
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p.s. Speaking of limitless sky,
These quotes are inspirational in so many ways, as is the way you see and help others to see beyond what is visible. Thank you for this post – from the bottom of my heart.
“All God’s angels come to us disguised.” ~James Russell Lowell
Hi Fran–
It’s interesting that I considered including the quote your comment contains in the post. All that is seen and unseen…
At any rate, I think that children see what we forget to see because we are busy with what we feel is more important. And they remember what we forget, that more is always possible than we think is possible. So why not dive right in to the possibilities instead of arguing for or against them?
Felicia
Yes indeed! Lewis Carroll captured this when Alice is in between two worlds – child and adulthood:
“Now I’ll give you something to believe. I’m just one hundred and one, five months and a day.’
`I can’t believe that!’ said Alice.
`Can’t you?’ the Queen said in a pitying tone. `Try again: draw a long breath, and shut your eyes.’
Alice laughed. `There’s no use trying,’ she said: `one can’t believe impossible things.’
`I daresay you haven’t had much practice,’ said the Queen. `When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
He is our angel. I love the quotations about angels!