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Interstate Vision
by Rebecca Tompkins
Our Lady has appeared on the back of a road sign near Lakesville. What
better way to reach the
masses! Grottos are unlikely places for crowds these days, since the
advent of indoor plumbing. Anyway, no one believes a solitary prophet.
Those hanging around a grotto must be backwoods hippies or red neck
yahoos. At least on the highway you might get someone who can provide
an intelligent sound bite for CNN.
Someone eye-pleasing with the correct ratio of polite deference and
street savvy to be embraced by the teaming masses. A little better
than most but not so good that they might be viewed as looking down on
others. They would need to possess no secrets, be open but not crass
in the way that so many talkative people are. No saint and no redeemed
sinner, they tend to be too sanctimonious. No drugs in their past, but
maybe a friend or family member with a drug problem. Empathy is good.
Heaven forbid they see a therapist or take some Prozac, there is no
credibility after that kind of weak willed cop out.
She needs kind, faithful, sexy spokesmodels. Barring that She knows it
is better to go for quantity not quality because, as everyone knows you
can please some of the people.... It's difficult to argue with
volume. Popular opinion rules. But it just isn't special if everyone
has the vision. It doesn't seem bestowed on us by the divine. That's
why She appears on the back of the sign. It is a test to find the true
seekers--only those willing to look back or make a U-turn.
"Interstate Vision" is copyright © 2000 by Rebecca Tompkins. All Rights Reserved.
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