I get a quick sense of my generation (and age) when I search for a phrase. Today's is "looking for angels". What comes up is Skillet Looking for Angels - official music video and lyrics. A mournful song about the woes of the world.
At the other end of the spectrum of angels is the long list of angel sightings, angel encounters and true stories, real pictures and videos. The most recent fact-checked angel cloud sighting over Kyiv proves to be from around 2008. But we so want angels with us in our lives.
The largest gathering of people dressed as angels is in the Guinness Book of Records. There were 1,275 people gathered in Winnipeg on December 1st 2015. There are sand angel records and snow angel records - 8,962 people flapping their arms and legs in unison on the State Capital grounds of North Dakota in 2007.
I wonder about this after John Milton's Paradise Lost and the Angel escorting Adam and Eve from Paradise. Where was the angel when they needed help? Aren't angels supposed to be guardians not guards?
Where to find the answer? On Quora. Lots of opinions and explanations are offered. Here are the top two posts. First from "Sherry Claire - Author has 798 answers and 858,500 views, and next from Dick Harfield with 25,700 answers and 68.8 Million answer views.
This is McLuhan's global village now and here's the current approach to biblical questions with millions of people checking out the answers.
Just a few posts down comes Stu Lewis' answer - "Questions like this are sort of pointless. You could ask similar questions about any work of fiction or mythology. What if Gatsby had anticipated Wilson’s act of revenge and taken precautions rather than going for a swim? What if Hamlet had not been foolish enough to stab at the curtain before checking to be sure who was behind it? What if Macbeth had understood that a prophecty was bound to come true even if he sat back and waited for the inevitable rather than killing the king? The list is endless."
This is the John Street orchard on a winter foggy day a few years ago. We've had a lot of mist and fog in the air this autumn and that makes for beautiful sunrises in orange and peach tones. | 
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