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arfie 09/12/2017

I take great comfort from believing in magic. I often attach to various doodads I find along my way and weave intricate fantasies about their magical lives. Tin frogs lost from an old windchime find their way into my pocket and I pass anxious hours endowing them with the power to change traffic lights and tend the karmic debt of the jerk who cut in line in front of me. They can slay nightmares with their innocent guile.

Big screen magic, it ain't, but it relaxes me enough that I wonder if I could call it, "Healing Magic."

Don't mind me. Still waiting and bored enough to get stupid. . .

Leo 09/12/2017

I make up stories about found items. I can make a whole head-novel out of some. Sanity Magic, I call mine. I name and "give" personalities to stuffed animals. I'm kinda nuts, but we knew that.

arfie 09/12/2017

I wasn't aware you were trying to hide the nut factor here. I'm certainly not. Life is so much simpler when I just let my freak flag fly. Truth is much easier to keep track of.

Love the "Sanity Magic." It fits!

Leo 09/12/2017

Hey, I love chocolate, it goes well with nuts, so no worries here.

patti22 09/12/2017

~~~~you are getting sleepy~~~~
~~~~you want to make Patti chocolate chip cookies and send them to her~~~~

spacepony 09/12/2017

Big screen magic won't fit in your pocket, but little ordinary jewels can. I love my little doohickies. My kid does too. They slay the nightmares? That's real magic.

arfie 09/13/2017

With the little ones, magic talismans have 100% effective in preventing nightmares for the children I have cared for. I have used whatever book they loved at the time of the need and told them of its special powers to keep the monsters out of their dreams before sliding the "protection" under their pillows. Works like a charm. Literally.

Did the chocolate chip cookies arrive safely, Patti?

mujicaptsd 09/13/2017

Magical realism runs deep with me, arfie, for obvious reasons South American about how they overlap in the Latino everyday world. San Cristobal de las Casas in Mexico, where I've gone 3 times this year, will return to in December, and hope to retire to soon, is officially designated in Mexico as a "pueblo ma'gico," a magical town. Which is why I want to live there in that Mayan magical world. Magic to me is not a luxury, it's a necessity.

jewells1 09/13/2017

I just put my dragon down for a rest, we've been up all night flying. So magical? What's that about? If you get the idea organized call me, I will be feeding the Sprites in my garden.

arfie 09/13/2017

Organized magic? Harvey and Irma spring to mind from this season's media headlines. . . I like my magical encounters to be Sprite-sized or saddled. Wanna meet-up for a dragon race tonight?

Enjoy the Mayan magic, Muji. My favorite thing about the South and Central American magics is that I get to discuss them in my second language where my habitual reactions are far less ingrained. Certainty unavailable, but I often believe Quetzalcoatl has been haunting me for most of my life. S/he uses a sensory language.

LillyPotter 09/13/2017

i gotta get all in here with your magicness, i love your magical frog bits from the wind chimes - everything here, all of this xxx

arfie 09/13/2017

Only if you bring your Inner Brat, Lilly. My favorite magics always have a brat factor.

LillyPotter 09/13/2017

k, she's here, i feel a stomp comin on : ) X

arfie 09/13/2017

Magic in action? I was just watching old "Thumper" clips. THAT fellow knows how to stomp! Magically.

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