140611 a vigil for

I've never held, nor participated in a vigil for anything, ever.

Am I then an outlier?

Or, perhaps my lack of "fan"-aticism?

Perhaps I'm just damn lucky that no one close to me was:

held hostage by terrorists

kidnapped for ransom

dying slowly of a disease that only more money could help

lost and whereabouts unknown

or any of the myriad of reasons that one would hold a vigil...

There is an element of "prayer" surrounding vigil, as in "prayer vigil" a common expression.

Can there be a vigil (where the participants are VIGILANT) without spiritual connection?

Isn't that the purpose of a vigil, to connect a group to a common goal, whatever the high minded purpose.

Could a football team's huddle be a vigil?  

What other human activities serve a similar purpose to vigils?

I don't think there is anything quite like a vigil, in my mind, a group of people who are concentrating on a good outcome to a highly volatile/low probability of a good outcome event!

But, we wish them luck!

-- GMWF

Here's what you engender

cacoethes scribendi  [L.]  the irresistible urge to write

There may be a blog already, sorry about that...

--

Mikey