It is undeniably true.  Today started off miserably.  It wasn’t by choice, I’ll tell you.  I didn’t wake up on the wrong side of the bed.  When I woke, I was on the same side I’m always on.  And I certainly didn’t start off on the wrong foot.  You see, I have a left foot and a right foot.  There is wrong foot.  I wanted the sun to shine… and the birds to sing.

But… it all went sideways.  I should have known things were going to be foul, when I tried to place the coffee pot on the table, and I missed by three inches.  Now, we have a terrific spot on the living room carpet.  Soon there after, I spilled an entire beverage during breakfast.  I assure you, neither of these incidents involved alcohol.

No.  Things were going south quickly, and I had no control.  Next, there were printer errors, and network glitches in the house.  And… with the high winds.. our electric went out, just long enough to disrupt all electronics.

Before long, human communication errors began to spill forth.  Luckily, we are both big girls, and have mostly come to realize when this is happening… in the very midst of it.

But something was running amok.  If I knew astrology, I probably could have blamed it on Jupiter passing by Saturn too quickly… before Venus lined up.  However, I cannot hold those planets accountable… without knowing the waterworks of it all.

Finally….I left the house with caution.  Tripping and falling came naturally today.

By 6 p.m. this evening… I thought all was lost for this day.  I arrived home and opened the mail.

Oh Sweet Cheeses.  A box?  With my name on it?  Before I ripped in to the packing tape… I held the box to my ear… to ensure it wasn’t ticking.  Silence.  So I tore in to it.  And what to mine eyes did appear?  A FREAKIN’ MAGIC WAND!

I’m not kidding you.  No frilly, sissy-make-believe Disney plastic wand.  Nooooooo. This is a hand-crafted, dyed-in-the-wool, true blue magic wand.  Handcrafted.  Solid wood.  And a pearly striped handle.

Shoooooooowwwwweeeeee.  I started waiving that thing around like a Herminey.  I changed one of our house plants into a bowl of jello… which was kind of cool.  Mary wasn’t as thrilled.  She loved that particular plant.  But now we have a huge bowl of lime jello.  Enough to last a year… IF we ate lime jello.

At any rate… the day turned around just like that.  All I needed was a little magic… and tonight.. I was given the wand to get the ball rolling.

Which brings me to this.  I should have been able to see the magic that was there all along.  I should be able to recognize the goodness, that is in my midst, on constant and consistent terms.  There is so much of the fantastic all around… all the time.  And when a little fog gets in the way… I need to remember that the spectacular is still RIGHT there.

Yep. That is what I should do.

But. ……. ……  It is STILL WAY okay that I SO LOVE my new magic wand.  I do!   I shall use it all the time.

….. …..  Oh boy oh boy…… ……. .. I hope the Owl comes in the mail tomorrow.