Do You Believe in Magic?

Once in a Blue Moon

Tomorrow in the offices the year on the stamps will be altered;
Tomorrow new diaries consulted, new calendars stand;
With such small adjustments life will again move forward
Implicating us all.
--Philip Larkin, "New Year Poem"

On My Son's Birthday

Even after all this time
the sun never says to the Earth,
“You owe me.”
Look what happens
with a Love like that –
It lights the whole sky.

--Hafiz

Christmas Cheer

Peaceful before, fun during--and the inevitable aftermath.

Winter Solstice: In the Bleak Midwinter

Moments of Being

Virginia Woolf asserts that moments of being are those flashes of awareness, revealing a pattern hidden behind the 'cotton wool of daily life': that we, "I mean all human beings--are connected with this; that the whole world is a work of art; that we are parts of the work of art." But the individual artist is not important in this work. Instead she says of all people, "We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself."

"God is in the Roses and the Thorns"