My favorite magical words come from the Amazing Mumford, of Sesame Street fame, whose incantation was “a la peanut butter sandwiches!” It reminds me that magic can be found in the simplest things–in nourishing one’s body and caring for another.
Make some simple magic today.
Yesterday, the US Supreme Court heard arguments in a case in which they will decide if states are constitutionally permitted to ban gender-affirming medical care for transgender teenagers using methods allowed for other medical issues. We don’t get political too often on the Daily Compass, but we feel compelled to affirm the rights of every child to grow up to be exactly who they were meant to me. To our transgender beloved and the parents of transgender children: you are magic. You are the magic that makes possible the fullness of humanity. We love you.
Do something today to affirm that you are, indeed, magic, in all of your fullness and beauty.
“Let us sing the magic of imagination by which we know one another and learn the lives of eras gone by.
Let us sing the magic of creation by which we build the world of our soul and teach its wisdom to others, young and old.
Let us sing the magic of our lives together, holding and shaping by the movement of breath from heart to lung all new life that is to come.
Go now with singing. Go now with magic in your fingertips. Touch this world with life.” -Susan van Dreser
How can you sing magic today?
“I don’t think that magic is anything supernatural. I think it’s part of the natural world that moves in us and through us. A lot of flakes and sinners use it to bamboozle the needy and gullible, but they use faith, love, and hope that way too, and I wouldn’t be willing to scorn those because they are hard to measure and sometimes get used for dishonorable purposes. I’ll keep being open to the deep magic, and practicing it, until I find a way to believe it.” -Meg Barnhouse, from Seeds of a Spirited Life
How can you be open to things you don’t understand?
Thanks to the new movie Wicked, “make your own magic” is a phrase I’ve been seeing pop up everywhere. A few years ago I would have balked at the “woo woo” idea of making our own magic, but as I get older, I understand more of what that means to me. I can embody the magic of any moment I am in. I can embrace joy by singing at the top of my lungs, I can embrace the love of community when I invite beloved friends over to my home to share a meal. Magic happens in the moments when we are present to life. We are always invited to make our own magic. -Aisha Hauser (CLF)
How do you make your own magic?
