A bit of magic

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“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”  Ronald Dahl

I love the above mentioned quote and experienced a wee bit of such magic yesterday in a most unlikely place - Fred Meyer. 

I was one of what felt like 2,000 fellow grocery shoppers skillfully and patiently navigating my shopping cart through gridlocked aisle ways, working hard to keep my cool while surrounded by near palpable pre-holiday stress.

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The aisle containing flour and sugar and other baking goods felt like I-5 in Friday rush hour traffic! Yet, in this chaos, surrounded by all this adult tension, two little boys discovered a bit of magic. 

A bag of flour lay split open on a shelf and a small pile of flour lay next to it. The small boys gently placed their hands in the flour, coating their palms, then clapped their hands together gleefully creating a cloud of white dust.

The smallest boy noticed me noticing him. Hurriedly he plunged his hands into the flour again, walked over to me, clapped his hands together and giggling said, "Poof! It's magic!" 

And it was magic for immediately this little boy's happy dance dispelled my impatience. His innocent delight in finding magic in pile of plain, white flour touched me in such a way that felt sacred. I was the lucky one for having witnessed such pure delight. 

I'm happy to report that because of this little boy's experience with magic, my eyes have been refocused to look for magic in unlikely places. (I found magic today while painting a room in my house, a task that I find most unpleasant.) After all, it's all about perception.....