Today is the day when hoaxsters and jokesters and pranksters abound. It’s the unofficial-official national day of the trickster.
Historically on this day it’s best to doubt everything that you are told, to check the sources of your information. To join in the joking and let off some steam with a bit of harmless mischief.
It’s much harder in this day-and-age since everyday is April fools day! The mischief is not harmless. With so many dedicated conspiracy theorists running amok, shysters selling bibles, serial liars celebrated, vapid minds taken seriously, it’s difficult to tell where the fool’s day begins and where it ends. It’s tough to know where the fools begin and where they end.
So, on this day as on all others, it’s a best practice to doubt everything that you are told [as a rule of thumb, it’s not a bad practice everyday to doubt everything that you think!], to religiously check the sources of your information and to check the sources of information promoted as religious.
Fools and tricksters are meant to make us open our eyes; to step back and take ourselves less seriously. To help us discern between the sacred and the profane. They are meant to shock the system when the system begins to believe that it’s “all that.” They are meant to help us laugh at ourselves.
Play safe out there. Have fun. It is my deepest wish that we might lighten up ever so slightly and learn to chuckle at our foibles. I know, I know…pie in the sky. First we must learn to distinguish between a foible and a strength, a truth and a lie, a joke and a virtue, an ignoramus and a learner, propaganda and news.
Until then, we are all destined to be April’s fools.
read Kerri’s blogpost about FOOLS
[Christopher Wool’s painting, Fool, at the Milwaukee Art Museum]
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The Direction of Intention 
“Check your sources of information.” A Social Work professor told our class exactly that. Apparently, there were some writers who “quoted” another as saying such and such, when in fact, it was bogus. That hit home for me.
April Fool’s Day…Brenda is on to me. Damn! No fooling her. We enjoy your Direction of Intention, and look forward to it eagerly, David. Thank you!
-B & C
Thank you for reading my blather!
No blother, er, i mean bother!