Next week, as an online community we will consciously create magic through kindness during the month of December.
Magic. Every. Single. Day. It’s going to be beautiful. Stayed tuned 🙂
This morning was another kind of magic. It was beautiful to wake up to snow blanketing everything so thickly in white. Still after a warm day, the trees are heavily laden. I love that.
I returned recently from tobogganing with my daughter. We came home wet and soggy but also hyper-aware of all the things we love to do in the winter. We talked about how her ski boots and skates no longer fit. We have decided we need to get cracking on this exciting (and magical) business of winter.
Here’s the first part of a poem by Claude McKay that makes me consider that as fantastical as this poem’s idea of snow…the scientific wonders of the natural world around us are equally as spellbinding. We just have to look with seeing eyes.
The Snow Fairy ~ Claude McKay
Throughout the afternoon I watched them there,
Snow-fairies falling, falling from the sky,
Whirling fantastic in the misty air,
Contending fierce for space supremacy.
And they flew down a mightier force at night,
As though in heaven there was revolt and riot,
And they, frail things had taken panic flight
Down to the calm earth seeking peace and quiet.
I went to bed and rose at early dawn
To see them huddled together in a heap,
Each merged into the other upon the lawn,
Worn out by the sharp struggle, fast asleep.
The sun shone brightly on them half the day,
By night they stealthily had stol’n away.
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