“Life’s an act of magic, too. Claire Hamill sings a line in one of her songs that really sums it up for me: ‘If there’s no magic, there’s no meaning.’ Without magic- or call it wonder, mystery, natural wisdom- nothing has any depth. It’s all just surface. You know: what you see is what you get. I honestly believe there’s more to everything than that, whether it’s a Monet hanging in a gallery or some old vagrant sleeping in an alley.”
― Charles de Lint
Have you had your magical moment today? I have known many people who have times in their life when they are in a pretty dark place. You know where everything looks like 3 PM on the 3rd rainy grey day in a row, smells like sewage and tastes like cigarette ash? I have been there myself more than once. At some point I learned a way to find my way out of those moments and vastly shorten them. I look for and find the magic moment. Oh it exists in almost any situation. It may be the dog or cat making a funny face. It could be the way the sun hits the window. It could even be that you notice an angle on your landlady’s face that’s beautiful even as she’s yelling at you or perhaps you have seen as she walked away that she thought of something that made her happy and smiled. If I can’t see it I look around until I can. There is always something going on outside my immediate self that can make me smile. Perhaps someone is helping another person who shows their gratitude. Perhaps a dandelion is growing in the middle of a parking lot. Collecting those magic moments and sharing them has kept me from wallowing in the grey areas.
Blessings, G
“You have to take risks, he said. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen. Every day, God gives us the sun–and also one moment in which we have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy. Every day, we try to pretend that we haven’t perceived that moment, that it doesn’t exist–that today is the same as yesterday and will be the same as tomorrow. But if people really pay attention to their everyday lives, they will discover that magic moment. It may arrive in the instant when we are doing something mundane, like putting our front-door key in the lock; it may lie hidden in the quiet that follows the lunch hour or in the thousand and one things that all seem the same to us. But that moment exists–a moment when all the power of the stars becomes a part of us and enables us to perform miracles.”
― Paulo Coelho
What was the magic moment of your day? How can you nurture that moment, sustain it and cause it to grow into a magical time… I think that the method that Paulo Coelho suggests to discover the moment in the first place. Paying attention. Tere are times when our attention, our focus is the most legitimate coin that we have, perhaps most of the time.
Blessings, G
Star Flower by G A Rosenberg 
