| Editor's Note: Issue #2 |
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Our readers' support of RUMINATE’s first issue has been the bread that kept us going. Which proved essential, because this second issue, Humor’s Grace, was a great test of endurance (mostly because the initial endorphins wore off and the sleepless nights took their toll). And yet we found laughter and your letters coming alongside our prayers for wisdom and strength, encouraging us through the muddle. Thank you. And again, I am proud to admit that, despite our muddle, RUMINATE’s artists have emerged—their grace has spoken.
One of our contributors, Yahia Lababidi, wrote: “Our Metaphysical eyes are expert at collapsing distances, seeing through the apparent to the infinite.” So too does humor collapse distances and see through to the infinite. Billy Collins said that humor is a door to the serious; it seems that humor is also a door to grace. We discovered this door opening unto comics and being short enough to miss the bullet, holy chickens, and ordinary objects (flamingos and origami to name a few), the possibilities of runaway truck ramps, dreams about Noah, letters to E.B. White, the alphabet, and His multitudes. And appropriately enough, and in case I wasn’t getting it, in the past few months my ten-month-old son has truly learned to laugh. He laughs at paper bags and wind chimes, and our black lab Samson—collapsing all my definitions of mundane, just as each of our contributors have collapsed, retrieved and then given great liberties to our definition of humor. We have discovered that humor is intuitional; it is wit and irony and sarcasm, mood altering, whimsical and full of delight. And when it is really good, it is grace. We hope this is evident for you and that you are able to move through the door and into the gift. Many blessings, Brianna Van Dyke *This issue is for all of our laughmakers. |
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