As I was walking home a couple weeks ago, a small voice hailed me. “Want to buy a magic potion?” The speaker was a neighbor from up the street, a four-year old boy with dark straight hair, sitting with his Mom on the front steps of their house. A box with three small bottles lay […]
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Wisdom of Fireflies
Dear Folks, One fourth of July evening when I was 13, my mother, sister and I sat out on a hillside near our house in Virginia. We pretended we had fabulous balcony seats overlooking a phenomenal light show. In front of us was a small forest of bamboo run wild from lack of knowledge about […]
Kindling our Magic
“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” –W.B. Yeats Dear Folks, This week I’ve been thinking about a trip I took almost 10 years ago to the bioluminescent bay on Vieques, a little island off of Puerto Rico. One evening, we went sea kayaking with a guided […]