My weekly newsletter drops every Saturday (usually in the morning).
Taking its name from the short story, Revelation, by Flannery O’Connor, and remaining true to O’connor’s fictional qualities, this Saturday newsletter might tend to “lean away from typical social patterns, toward mystery and the unexpected.”
Like the protagonist, Ruby Turpin, a self-righteous southern woman has a violent encounter that leads to a spiritual revelation, all of us must eventually realize singing on key is no requisite to singing in the heavenly choir. And, in order to get to the other side of the bridge and pass through the field of living fire, all our virtues will have to be burned away. We’ll have to see ourselves as we really are, “warthogs from hell!”
Only then can we take our rightful place—at the end of the procession—behind “whole companies of white-trash, clean for the first time in their lives, and bands of black niggers in white robes, and battalions of freaks and lunatics shouting and clapping and leaping like frogs.”((Flannery O’Connor, Collected Works, (New York, 1988), 654.))