Empirical Evidence of the Existence of Angels
In mid-August 2021, I began attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings daily at age 51.
Throughout lockdown, I developed an increasing interest in numerology, astrology, tarot and taking long walks around Central London where I live.
For eleven days and eleven hours in September 2021, when I noticed an angel feather (some may have been pigeon feathers on the street or goose or duck feathers at home: hard to differentiate), on my walks around London, I noted the thoughts in my head, along with the location and time.
This was to document the existence of angels.
Tuesday, 7th September 2021
12:00 Long Acre
I’m into astrology and all that shit
15:00 Trafalgar Square
Please don’t be nice to me as I will start crying
Wednesday, 8th September 2021
07:00 Bow Street
Oh, I love that feeling of the early morning city when people are starting to mill about and you know it’s going to be a scorchio day
13:00 Lewisham Way
Wonder if ASDA sells kettles
Thursday, 9th September 2021
10:00 Kingsway
‘It was the finest, it was the finest, it was the finest in the world’ (Lotte Lenya singing ‘Bilbao Song’)
10:32 Lewisham DLR station
‘Bill’s Dancehall in Bilbao, Bilbao, Bilbao’ (Lotte Lenya Singing ‘Bilbao Song’)
(time not noted) Petrol Station / Tesco Express
‘Mosey Don’t You Know – Take Me Out’ (unremembered lyrics to Franz Ferdinand’s ‘Take Me Out’)
16:59 New Cross Road
“A feather falls to the floor in front of me – I looked up and there was this angel that I am sure was Archangel Michael” (Summer Bacon live in conversation to Bracha Goldsmith on YouTube)
Friday 10th September 2021
18:43 Green Park
Do you think I would get arrested if I pissed behind this coffee stand as it’s in sight of the palace?
19:09 Serpentine
The last year you saw me on my birthday I’d had seriously about three hours sleep
Saturday 11th September 2021
00:19 My bed found as I pulled back the duvet
I wasn’t thinking anything
08:56 Shaftesbury Avenue
I’ve got this dis-ease
11:51 Lewisham DLR station entrance
I feel uncomfortable that I should want to know what it was like to be in his skin to think I don’t feel appalled or disgusted about that or him and that I feel I should
12:00 Outside Lewisham Retail Park
I really need to meditate
Sunday 12th September 2021
08:57 Shaftesbury Avenue
I wonder what would be a good font
10:40 Earlham Street
It is up to me to stop that family lineage of sexually predatory behaviour
10:53 Tottenham Court Road
I’m concerned with the duality of things
11:24 Tottenham Court Road
‘Some mistakes were built to last’ (listening to George Michael’s ‘Freedom ’90′)
11:31 Shaftesbury Avenue
G, you made lovely coffee this morning
13:24 Waterloo Road
‘I’m free to do what I want’ (listening to the Soup Dragon’s ‘I’m Free’)
14:45 Lewisham Way
Hi, I’m leon and I’ve just got a £5.50 kettle from ASDA
15:02 Lewisham Retail Park
‘Don’t look at the carpet – I drew something awful on it’ (David Bowie ‘Breaking Glass’ earworm)
Monday, 13th September 2021
12:37 Waterloo Road
We’re alcoholics, of course we are in our own heads.
12:56 New Kent Road
I mean 51 and to be thinking about risk-taking behaviours
18:43 Waterloo Station toilets
Not quite hitting the high notes, that’s all I’m saying.
22:59 Home Living Room floor
‘Fear is at the beginning’ (watching Acyuta-bharva Das on YouTube)
Tuesday 14th September 2021
09:39 Home Bedroom floor
No thanks, I really don’t want cocaine, no good for me.
12:41 Fleet Street
Anyway, I don’t have to justify this, it is what it is, I am what I am, and that’s what I’m doing about it.
14:38 The Cut
Last time I went there, J was visiting and I went back for a beer after my jab.
17:25 Baylis Road
Yes, well maybe they’re right about that, just maybe.
17:59 Baylis Road
Must remember to call someone from AA before I go to those preview drinks on Thursday so I’m prepared.
18:30 Old Kent Road
I’m going to be in by about half nine, I hope that’s not going to get in your way.
Wednesday 15th September 2021
05:35 Home My Bedroom by the door
Wonder what the connection is with Croatia?
06:59 Home Living Room cushion
Perhaps I should go to Lidl twice today as I’ve got those vouchers that will expire.
07:24 St Paul’s Churchyard
Anyone’s persuasion is up for grabs after five pints and a couple of lines of coke.
08:52 London Bridge
‘Well, hello Dolly’ (listening to Barbara Streisand)
10:26 Thornton Road
I need to remember that sometimes.
17:12 Lewisham Way
What a lovely big yucca plant he’s got.
17:32 Lewisham Way
God, the side of that building puts me right into 1988.
17:55 Old Kent Road
Relax your face. Remember how screwed up in pain you only realised Sandra’s face was when you saw her laid out in the chapel of rest.
Thursday 16th September 2021
07:30 Home Living Room a feather appears in the air
“Honey, I’ve just seen an angel.” (watching Suzanne Gieseman giving a YouTube talk, “Archangel Michael is real: This story leaves no doubt”)
11:28 Home Living Room under the sofa
Thanks honey. Let’s see how I get on finding homes for my stuff. (WhatsApp message from E to me)
12:11 Bedroom Bottom Of Mattress
To be honest, I don’t really want to go.
20:58 Ludgate Hill
What started as terrible turned out to be what could possibly be one of the most beautiful days of my life.
Friday 17th September 2021
06:39 Home Bedroom Under The Bed
I should make CDs and sell them.
10:12 Mill Street
That’s fine. You are welcome to touch more than my feet.
10:21 Jamaica Road
It’s because I walk every day.
10:29 Southwark Park
Really shouldn’t drink tea before walking in.
11:50 New Cross Road
Will there be a message for it?
21:30 Russell Street
I don’t know where I’m going.
