Happy All Saints' Day

As usual, we often let the crazy run-up to a holiday overshadow the actual holiday. In this case, All Saints' Day, in which we remember all the saints as a collected group: your grandparents, and that inspiring spiritual mentor from your childhood, and Martin Luther, and the nameless 12th-century Flemish farmer whose influence made this very day better in some way better — all the butterfly-winged effect-causers of the near and distant past who have given you the faith that is yours, in this world that is yours.

And that someday someone will be thankful for the unknown unnamed saint that is you.