Enlightenment

Strange things have happened to me. But events did not flow toward a single momentous revelation, one blooming pyrotechnic end-- Enlightenment! --with chrysanthemum fireworks bursting in the night. No, it was a great jumble of facts, instead, with ghosts on top of angels, and dreams and serendipitous coincidences, intertwining with the normal everyday.

-Sophy Burnham,
"A Book of Angels"