Arts and Crafts

Arts and Crafts

Hi, Poof's my name, magic is my game and the score is one to one. What? You thought magic was bad ONLY or good ONLY? No, magic is simply magic. The intent or wish of the magician makes it good or bad you see. I know, its pretty complicated. Let me explain a bit, just a bit though, can't give away too many secrets can we?
Where to begin? The beginning? How about a long, long time ago? How about 1744? Just kidding. Magic has been around forever which is a long, long time. Most people can even see some magic. Take beauty, please. Beauty IS a kind of magic. It makes us feel alive. Watch a sunrise or sunset sometime and tell me that isn't magic. Look at those tiny purple woolly flowers in the forest and tell me that isn't magic too. Its everywhere. That's the beauty of magic.
Look at a baby person, puppy, kitty, rhinoceros or elephant. They are all beautiful and new. The world is waiting for them to make their own way. Beautiful.
Watch a dancer, read good poetry or prose, look at fine paintings and sculpture, all magic, they make us feel alive and we need this beauty. We can see, listen to and feel beauty. Magic, eh?
Perhaps you were thinking of spells, witches, dragons, fairies? They are another part of magic. A real magician or witch trains much longer than the people you call doctors. The training for good or bad is long and hard. Why would anyone train to be evil? I don't know. I think something is missing for them, love. There can be no evil when love is present. Right now the score is about one to one like I said.
If we choose love and beauty, maybe the score will be one to nothing some day. For now, its one to one. Lots of people just miss the beauty and never had the love. They look to the dark arts. Lots of people see the rainbows and fog and friends and family. They are seeing magic. A few, look deeper into the veil of life and spend their lives learning to make magic. Most of these don't have the proper teacher and waste their time. Every once in a while there is a real teacher who understands love and beauty. Every once in a while there is a teacher who understands pain and suffering. Both have many students.
Who do we choose to guide us? Love and beauty or pain and suffering? This doesn't seem all that hard a choice to me, but it is. There is much suffering. Good people seem to suffer. Why? Is pain a test or some bad magician's spell? Perhaps its just a part of life for many. There are lots of bad people who seem to have a good life. Perhaps this is a test for them too. Live good and learn to be good might be their lesson while the good people who suffer might be learning as well. Both might be tests.
There is a lot to think about here. Maybe we can ponder the essence of life another time when we learn more. For now, look at beauty and behold the magic of it. See love that is offered and that you offer. Magic for all.
Your Friend,
Poof
Copyright 2007 by Robin Hall