Finding Magic Everywhere
Magic. How do you define magic? To me there are many aspects to this delicious concept. One definition of magic is that it is the ability to create reality, to move time and space using the elements or the power of one’s thoughts. Another definition of magic is that it is something that takes us away from the “ordinary”. Something that moves us, inspires or transforms. People often say art is magic or a sunset is magic or the smile of baby….
This Winter I have really been experiencing the magic of ice in the outdoors. All kinds of ice.
Thick hard sheets that completely and entirely cover a body of water.
Artistry in Ice
The stunning latticework that forms in sheets of ice.
Watching water and stones flow under a thin sheet of ice.
The many varied textures and formations of ice.
ICE IS MAGIC INDEED!
It is often an incorrect belief that during winter much of life is no longer alive. Oh no! There are buds just waiting to bloom. Pregnant with life. And now I see this magic in ice.
Ice can completely cover a river while underneath the river is still flowing very strongly. 
I can see the parallel for living. How can such life be so active under what looks completely frozen and immobile? Ice, which appears stagnate, is of course, continually in transformation. What is waiting under the ice in our lives? What is flowing passionately under the surface while on the outside it may seem like we are resting or sleeping? What is melting away only to flow into something deliriously new and magical……
Yesterday I was walking on a lake covered in ice and my foot fell slightly through getting soaked…. ahhhhh! The mysteries below are cracking through… My experience and epiphanies around ice have certainly taken me away from the ordinary. They are moving and transforming me which is one of my definitions of magic.
May you see magic and awaken through the wonders of Winter– including by ice!
