Down on spiral drafts that smell of madness
into the echoing insanity that lies in wait
surrounded by walls of a tomb once grand
left to steep in memory and shadow
In those halls walk the last of us
who breathed of summer air
and knew winter waited at its end
beyond the slow death that always comes
The last of a skyborn people
who dreamed always of return
and so went searching in the deep
for all the fallen pieces of the stars
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Seems to me a lot more people in this world believe in magic than are willing to admit to it. Or maybe it’s the “wrong” kind of magic to them.
The Light is On 
13 responses to “Of Summer Air”
People have all kinds of misconceptions of how causation works, and sympathetic magic is one of them. My mom used to say that if she held her mouth just right then things would go her way. IMO, prayer is a form of magic because it attempts by a spell to make events go according to your wishes.
You may enjoy reading The Golden Bough by James George Frazer. It’s a great expose of superstition.
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Thanks for the recommendation! Interesting point about magic and the manifestation of our desires. To some extent, in that by keeping the things you want at the forefront of your mind you will more often continue striving to achieve them, it seems that this type of “magic” works… To some extent.
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Very intriguing. Brilliant write-up.
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Thanks so much (:
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Amazingly written!
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I like the idea of finding fallen pieces of the stars… and swishing them back into the heavens where the skyborn people dwell! Your imagination is wondrous, Mitchel ❤
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Much appreciated Jan, thank you (: hope you’re doing well!
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Thank you 😊 I am! I thank God every day for my health and the love of family & friends. Bee 🐝 well … I love making new friends {{{Mitchel}}} ❤️👍🏽
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Loved it! Here’s to magic.
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Hear hear! Or is it “here here”?
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I looked it up, it’s “hear hear!” 😉
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I “believe” in magic meaning it IS a hyperbowl thing, but it is not interesting meaning not the whole truth is being told there. I agree that with awareness, what you agree to have at the forefront of your attention you will come to see in some reality and see more and more of it relative to your intention. There are a lot of people who agree to see only part of something and agree that they can’t understand completely about things around them and agree that life is a mystery. I do not agree there and instead agree to see and know completely about my interests with those interests being what they can continue to be. This later agreement supports both peace and joy at knowing again and again. Take it easy, Trudy
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I’m with you. It feels like a bit of a cop out to learn only part of the truth about something and accept the rest as an unknowable mystery. Maybe that’s just me needing closure, though. It’s why stories of unsolved mysteries captivate me, I think!
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