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,