How many of you have been “April Fooled” already today?

Did you get salt out of the sugar bowl for your coffee or cereal? Did the lids to the pepper and salt shakers fall completely off with the first shake?

Were all your shirt sleeves turned inside out?

Good April Fool jokes and pranks are supposed to strike out at our routines, shake up our perceptions, make something ordinary odd and extraordinary. Sometimes April Fool is something contrived. Sometimes April Fool just happens. For example, Andy Warhol, who turned out to have been a devout Christian, received a Catholic burial at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Manhattan on April Fool’s Day 1987, attended by 2000 people. Whether contrived or natural, to be an “April Fool” is to embrace the surprises and new experiences of Spring.

There is…