Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Lavender Fairies

Magic is what once explained what we could not understand.
Why does frost appear on windows only on winter mornings? Magic.
We know so much now about ice crystals and other natural phenomenon. No room for magic.

But there is still some, an echo of magic.
Why do girls love horses? Magic.

Why are little girls inexorably drawn to fairies? Why do we look on, feeling a strange wistfulness stripped of our cynicism?

Magic.