Abracadabra

I must admit that is a title I borrowed from a fantastic book my moms book group just read. It is a wonderful love story with some historical fiction about World War II thrown in. I loved it, but back to ordinary days. Today was an ordinary day but every day can seem somewhat ordinary and yet they are magical too. I like this theme of magic and will stick with it as there is much to be said for it. I’m not talking about sorcery but things that are just beyond the reach of a full explanation like almost everything around us.

Have you ever stopped to watch a humingbird? Now if that’s not magic than I don’t know what is. I know there are certainly physicists who can explain how exactly they propel themselves and just how many times they beat their tiny wings but I haven’t seen one reproduced in a lab yet. I see the humingbirds every day just outside my window. My plastic humingbird feeder was one of the best under five dollar investments I made. I was also watching the magic of millions of ants in my yard today and how they can carry multiple times their weight. How come we are so much bigger and can’t do the same? It is one of those magic things I wonder about. No matter how technosaavy we get sometimes we are unable to explain the simplest things. Magic is all around us and I plan to write about it in this homeschool blog.

I guess I should have left the best for last because it doesn’t feel right to eat dessert first but anyway, on to the ordinary. I am busy as a bee as usual getting things in order and suddenly I remembered that even though I worked out the academics well, at least on paper, I have not yet purchased all the materials I plan to use. Now if there were the kind of magic where money grew on trees I would just order them up today but since it doesn’t and we stretch the finances I guess I’ll wait until September when I have a bit more. I don’t think anyone’s brain will atrophy by then.

I guess I will go back and end on the magic note and remind all you alert readers that there is magic everywhere just open your eyes and you will see it.

Mimi

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