The Aerial Horizon

Anne Lamont once, in a commencement speech, referred to laughter as “carbonated holiness” and that thought has stuck in my consciousness…When we think of carbonation, our thoughts, more aptly, are of the effervescence we witness when a trapped gas escapes solution, but that is merely the release. The reality is, more so, that the nature of a thing is so embedded in our world that we don’t recognize its presence until in a moment of effervescence, it escapes and delivers a fizz to our souls, experienced in a subtle sense of excitement and elation as we pass through a certain time and space…oneness with our world revealing itself along the ragged edge of an earthly solution. Wisps of vapor extend from clouds, simultaneously escaping the solution and inviting us into the revelation of the holiness of spirit hidden within each element of our world.