The Daily Word

for February 8, 2021

by Gwyn English Nielsen

ethereal - adjective - heavenly, spiritual, immaterial

Everyone reaches for that which is ethereal, something beyond this realm, something beyond reach, something close to perfection. Just think about the allusions that point to that which is ethereal. A popular one is “angel.” How many times have we heard a man or a woman refer to his or her significant other as “my angel”? Perhaps a plethora of times. Whether the object of adoration actually deserves the moniker is another question, but it is there, proving that somehow we all ascribe to reach the ethereal plateau in some sense even if it is once removed. And why not? To what else do we earthbound humans have to aspire?

I’ll leave you with one of my favorite quotes by the timely genius, Oscar Wilde: “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” Now there was a man who truly understood the paradoxical nature of life. 

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