How To Make Magic

It might be hard to make magic, but you can do it. It's evasive, but it'll come if it knows you. It's timid, like a fox, but if you speak gently to it at night, it may begin to trust you. These are some things you can do to invite it. Good luck.



  1. Gather advice from a tree (obviously).
  2. Arrange leaves in a circle around you whilst playing a song by Gladys Knight & The Pips.
  3. Eat a Kit-Kat or something (there is a force within these that I cannot explain).
  4. Drink a big glass of water in one sustained movement.
  5. Hold the dust motes in your fists. Name each one. You can call them all Dave if you want.
  6. Try and be grateful for something. Maybe enter a different time.
  7. Lie in the rain if possible.
  8. Press a pencil into a page really hard. Make an angry line. A line that knows it's supposed to be there.
  9. Have two dreams in a row about bad haircuts.
  10. Give your hands to a small animal. This works best for hedgehogs. Voles also work okay.
  11. Dream. More.


2 comments:

Thank you so much for your comments, especially if they include limericks about skeletons.
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