Letter from a Saint (NO Native) in Madrid [by Kathleen Heil]

They told me they spoke about the Saints on the Spanish News
but I don’t have a TV, so I couldn’t tell you. 
I remember as a girl watching them lose while we prayed for intercession
of a different kind.  In Madrid
I am far away from the divine and so the win seems like another story, which it
is, good news. The Sky News announcer forgot to mention that it’s almost Mardi
Gras. It’s an open question whether we will make it to the sky, which is what
the Spanish call heaven, or if what awaits us is something like the end of
Carnival in New Orleans, this year the 17th of February at 0.00 hours, Ash
Wednesday:  absence the only volume in
the French Quarter, the sound of a brush sweeping the sidewalks clean again.
Will we return home?  Will we retreat?
Kathleen Heil
9 febrero 2010