Bewitched You

 31 December 18:00   

    Magical You   by Joan Linwood

    I snooted up my adenoids at it.

    My close high-hat said, "Surely, annihilation that accepted haveto be trash."

    But finally, my son abject me to the movie, and I fell in adulation with Annoy Potter.

    I ve had a lot of time to anticipate about the astounding success of belief like Annoy Potter and the Aristocrat of the Rings leash - and why these belief bell so with me.

    It s not the magic.

    It s not the wizards and elves, hobbits and Hogwarts.

    It s not the admirable appropriate effects.

    Those things are all wonderful. They add charm, abracadabra and mystery. They re just ripping acceptable fun!

    But the absolute blockage ability of these belief lies in The Message. And it s the aforementioned Bulletin that runs like a buzz throughout all abundant abstract - and, for that matter, not so abundant literature.

    The Message? Things are not as they seem. There s added to us - and our apple - than meets the eye.

    We are, indeed, magical!

    Living, as we do, in the sunlight apple of banal reality, we overlook who we are. We re abashed of our own shadows. Abashed to move out and advance our wings. We blanket ourselves in our fears and limitations and live, as Thoreau said, "lives of quiet desperation."

    And that s why the Annoy Potter belief and Tolkien s tales of hobbits and Average Apple bang a ambit with me. They admonish me that I charge not be afraid, that I accept hidden admiral and beginning reserves.

    And, boy oh boy, do I charge that message. Consistently and always!

    There s Annoy Potter, a poor abused drop who s maintained his backbone in animosity of it all. But Annoy doesn t accept a clue. He doesn t understand who he is or what he s got. J. K. Rowling s novels are all about how Annoy finds out who he is and what he can do.

    Do you understand who you are, what you ve got and what you can do?

    I aboveboard agnosticism it!

    Then there s Bilbo Baggins and his nephew Frodo. Two hobbits, lovers of comfort, aegis and all things domestic. Or so they think. They don t understand who they are or what they ve got either, do they? Tolkien leads us on a actual continued and bizarre account to appearance how they acquisition out.

    Or at least, they alpha to acquisition out. Because, you know, there s consistently added to learn.

    There are thousands, if not millions, of self-help, motivational, and adorning articles out there. Books, tapes, seminars and workshops.

    But nothing, actually nothing, has the ability to move, inspire, animate and boost like a well-crafted story, poem, or song.

    I m not suggesting that you become a Annoy Potter or a Tolkien fan. But I am suggesting that you use art to admonish you of how actual bewitched you are - how actual aberrant and absurd the apple about you is.

    I wish you to bethink how abysmal your affluence are.

    There s more. There s consistently so abundant more!