In Pursuit of Magic: Marina Krim
“Two stars always seem to find me.”
It was my birthday yesterday. I want to share a goose-bump inducing story that happened to me five days earlier.
It was Saturday night and we were going to a friend’s birthday party in Brooklyn at an axe-throwing bar. We made dinner at home and ate with the kids before we headed out.
During dinner, Felix (age 5) started talking about magic. He was questioning whether magic was real or not. I said to him that I believe in magic and reminded him that with his creative superpowers (the 10 Principles of Creativity), he can see things that other people may not be able to see. Then I told him the story of when I was walking to pick up Nessie from school the day after Mother’s Day a few years ago and I found an acorn necklace, a gift from my little acorn collector Leo, hanging from an emergency call box. I think that convinced him that magic was indeed real.
The rest of our evening was spent with good friends, laughing, drinking and throwing axes at the Kick Axe Throwing bar in Brooklyn. It was loud, crowded and the mood was festive. It was not the kind of place that I would expect to get a message from Lulu and Leo…
As I was saying goodbye to our friends, I saw a tangled up necklace a few feet away from me on the ground. I curiously bent over and picked it up and looked closely at it…a necklace with two stars. Like when I discovered the acorn necklace, I couldn’t believe my eyes. Lulu and Leo magic happened right in the middle of an axe-throwing bar in Boerum Hill!
How do these meaningful messages find me? I don’t think I’m consciously searching for them. But thanks to my creative superpowers, I’ve always been open to finding them (the Present principle)! And that reminds me — I do have this artwork hanging over my bed that we got shortly after the kids died…!
What a great story I had for Nessie, Felix and Linus when we woke up in the morning! #ChooseCreativity #SeeThePossibilityInEveryMoment
