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How to Make Magic
Five ideas for re-enchanting the world
I don’t know about you, but I’m sick of box stores and freeways. I long for a little cottage in the woods where I can forage herbs to brew tinctures, rise with the sun, gaze at the stars and dance under the moon. I want to go home: home to the magic that was woven into my ancestor’s lives and has been brutally trampled over by the stampede of modernity.
There’s a reason Harry Potter was such a hit. There’s a reason we love stories of hobbits and wizards, dragons and ancient prophecies fulfilled. Our love of fantasy and magic realism runs deeper than escapism. I think we’re meant to like magic, that human life is meant to be magical.
This world is, in fact, a miracle: a tapestry of extravagant interdependence, wild surprises and abundant gifts. It is as mysterious as it is magnificent. And yet, the world we’ve grown accustomed to in modern society seeks to do away with that mystery, to rationalize the sublime and turn what is organically miraculous into manufactured mediocrity.
Our real lives are magical. Living is an act of magic. I’m on a journey to bring the magic back into my life, because that is my birth-right as a human being on planet Earth. If you want to bring magic into your life, too, these are some steps I know (so far) that help:
