I don’t remember the first time I discovered a magical place. But I do know of a few. Maybe they won’t bring magic into your life, but the feeling I get when I am at these places, it’s amazing. It’s as if the whole world disappears and there is just me and this place, this huge, ever-changing world that was made just for me to explore. This place with all of it’s out of place belongings---things that should be in one box, but during the move got placed in the wrong room. It all ends up being ok, because I like it the way it is, out of place and all. My places are places to be explored, territories that are ready to be discovered, but not rearranged. My places are fine the way they are.
My mind has been absent lately. A lot has happened to make my thoughts run so wild that they seemed to have run away to their own magical places.
I got married. I know, right? As unplanned and last minute as it was, well, yeah, I have no excuse for that. I told my mom the night before. Everyone else found out the next morning, some not until 2 hours before, and many not until after. We tried to do the courthouse thing, but they told us it was a 2 week wait. Huh? Is it not the point of the courthouse wedding to do it the same day? No one was even there! Whatever. We ended up getting married in a little wedding chapel, and it couldn’t have been better (so there, courthouse!). We were surrounded by our families, and well, all of my “sisters”. I wouldn’t change it for the world. Not even the walking down Ocean Blvd. barefoot in the rain afterwards part!
Early in the morning on December 24 I received a phone call from my sister that there was an emergency and I needed to come get Aubrey. Jarod fell and had severe brain trauma and was going into surgery.
Great plans for the holidays were put on hold as we waited to hear of any progress that Jarod made. Sadly, we said goodbye to him four days into the New Year. In his death, people were both brought together and torn apart. Jarod affected each of us in his own special way and we will always remember the good times that we had.
There are many other things that have happened since my last blog. Part of me is telling me to write them, but my mind is telling them to let them get lost in their magical place.
As for life today, I’m alive. I’m trying to get my students to discover their magical places to be explored for the rest of their lives. Places that bring them joy and peace and happiness. I have even introduced them to and told them about a few of my magical places, willing to share with them the amazing feelings of wonderment that come from those places. I am moving into new, unchartered magical places now, in hopes of being delighted by what I find.
Sometimes the wave needs to crash.
