Magick...

When I was a child, my belief in magick was unshakable.  I never doubted, questioned, or tried to explain it.  Truthfully, I didn't even know what magick was.  I just knew there were amazing things all over the place and I didn't know that not everyone knew they were there.

The lights that flickered about me.  The way the rain would come if I were upset or the clouds pushed away when I wanted to be happy.  The things people said that they couldn't figure out how I heard.  Or the way the world around me gave me warning about some things.  Or, even, Clara who played with me in the attic.

Time has a funny way of forcing us to "grow up."  I was lucky.  My aunt Anita, my grandmother, and a few others always made sure there was just enough magick in my life that I never lost belief.  Tales of the dwarves and other Canadian creatures at 100-mile were always my favorite.  I believed my aunt's tales (and still do) so much that I had to wonder when she told me she ordered the weather for me.  You see, one day at 100-mile it rained, had a thunder and lightning storm, snowed, AND was warm enough to wear shorts all in the same short twenty-four hours.  It was magickal, whether she ordered it or not.

As I grew belief did not wane, but  did need to be explained.  I researched, learned, taught, and pushed myself into sickness more than once.  I've been studying for a long time.  I'm wise and skilled at harnessing power.  However, I have lost the wonder.

That is what this post is really about.  Wonder.  Stop analyzing the world, and start being amazed by it.  It is a lesson I have had to face a ton lately.  Each thing, person, and place we come to is amazing!  It is all magick!  The lesson finally hit home tonight watching "Once Upon a Time."  A small boy who dares to dream that his world can be better sits alone staring at a clock that hasn't moved once in his entire life.  Then, as he stares, sullen because his quest for a savior doesn't seem to have worked, the Clock moves from 8:15 to 8:16.  The actor's smile was brilliant and there was a real sense of awe and joy.

Go.  Find THAT in the world, and leave your evil queen behind!