Magic is all around us. In the breeze. In flowers and trees. In beautiful art and roll-on-the-floor-belly-laughs. In color and sound. A great pair of jeans and when your favorite song comes on the radio exactly when you want it to. Love and friendship are magic. A beautiful meal is magic. Family is magic. Doing what you love to do. Serving others. Having fun. Compelling arguments, great books and eating pie for breakfast. The fact that I do most of my writing on a phone. All Magic!

I love magic and I’m a believer. I love glitter and Tinkerbell and flights of fancy. Sure I learned the “truth” about Santa at 5 and found all my teeth in my mom’s jewelry box at 6, but I still believe in magic.

Because you don’t have to choose. You can acknowledge reality and still play in the imaginary. It’s no less real to your mind and your spirit

Magic is the here and now. Being present. Showing up to life with the expectation to play. Yes junk happens. Yes, Life can be hard and ugly and cruel. So what!

You can’t change out there. You can only change you. How you view what you see and what you accept as “real”.

The nature of reality is choice. Do you choose to believe in the limiting “cold, hard reality” of life that we can measure and analyze? Or do you choose to be open to possibility; ask and it is given…Magic??

Get in the NOW of life and recognize the magic all around you. I get so giddy when I really experience the here and now. There is no threat, there is no fear, there only IS and most of it is Amazing!!

Write this down:

I recognize the magic in my life.

Then go have some FUN!!

Love you!!
Penelope Pauley