I haven’t got much to say today.
The meeting with village leaders Ian and Helen was productive and we now have a plan regarding getting an action group ready to support the Church , but generally yesterday was pretty quiet and today, I will be working then sleeping in that order.
No real magic today,
We all need little moments of magic in our lives…..just occasionally
Things to offset the humdrum and the ordinary .
Things that we will always remember.
A sunset, a view, a glance, an uncontrolled giggle….a moment …..we all have our little fragments of magic
I remember a few years ago now going to The New York Met for the first time.
It was to see The Magic Flute
It wasn’t the Opera the took my breath away, even though it was big and brash and extraordinary beautiful but it was the unexpected drama of the Met’s famous Lobmeyr Crystal Chandeliers as they were raised and lowered before the performance.
It was a wonderful piece of choreographed magic.
Understated but showy all at the same time.
And something that made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up
What is your magic moment?
The one that first enters your mind
sunrise/sunset
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DeleteI was lucky to see the old met on class trips to New York as an eighth and ninth grader from New Jersey. Very impressive to see Carmen and Aida on the old stage from the top balcony. The steps were so steep they took my breath away.
ReplyDeleteI was sitting in a woodland with my top dog when suddenly a hare appeared running towards us-it stopped and we were looking into each others eyes for what seemed like a long time before he continued on his way-strangely then my cheeky terrier looked at me wide eyed and had never barked at all x
ReplyDeleteWith my animals , yes too many moments to remember properly
DeleteKnowing myself and another person I had a crush on had the same thought at the same time.
ReplyDeleteSynchronicity
DeleteAn absolute carpet of wild violets on the woodland path behind my home in the spring. Dense, colorful and fragrant. So alive.
ReplyDeleteI get this as well, swathes of bluebells
DeleteAnd carpets of daffodils at Bodnant and Chatsworth
Sunset on a frosty night, rose tangled in black
ReplyDeleteNicely put
DeleteI've never been. It sounds lovely.
ReplyDeleteLove,
Janie
It was
DeleteSeeing Brigitte Bardot and her new husband GS, walk into my antique shop in Chelsea.
ReplyDeleteYou have out trumped everyone cro lol
DeleteGetting off the plane at OHare or in Cape Cod and seeing my parents there waiting for over all the years; seeing my son run out after school, the moment he'd see me waiting and his face would light up. Looking down just now and seeing my sweet doggy snoring at my feet.
ReplyDeleteLovely
DeleteWhile having an ultrasound with our first baby, I saw him sucking his thumb and that was too sweet to be believed.
ReplyDeleteHugs!
Another one that can't be beaten
DeleteHatching duck eggs :)
ReplyDeleteI loved watching my ducklings hatch. The best were my goslings
DeleteMy magic moments were the first time I held each of my sons and then the first time I held my two grandchildren as newborns. There is something so special about that new life and also about the continuation of life in a new generation.
ReplyDeleteI feel a bit shallow now lol
ReplyDeleteWalking through a campsite in Sicily as a child, and there was something wonderful about the quality of the evening air, the light, the warmth and the friendly sounds of people chatting and laughing around their tents. It felt magical and I felt so happy.
ReplyDeleteLovely
DeleteSo many. The latest one, on Wednesday, at the Liverpool Anglican Cathedral, walking in and seeing the art installation "Peace Doves". I'm not religious, but that took my breath away. xx
ReplyDeleteThe photos look amazing
Deletehttps://www.visitliverpool.com/whats-on/peace-doves-at-liverpool-cathedral-p469031
I think I will book some tickets
DeleteYou don't need to book, John, but I think they're only there until 31st August. xx
DeleteBeing in La Sainte Chapelle in Paris, when I was 16, listening to a candlelit performance of Bach’s ‘Christmas Oratorio’.
ReplyDeleteStanding on a precipice high above Amalfi, looking out over the Mediterranean on a blisteringly hot summer's afternoon. I would return to that spot every year for more years now than I can even remember. I haven't seen that treasured view for more than 24 months now and begin to doubt I will ever see it again.
ReplyDeleteThe Amalfi Coast is wonderful.
DeleteNicely remembered my friend
DeleteSeveral actually, but you ask for one. Taking off from Las Vegas Airport in a helicopter and flying over the Grand Canyon. Magic.
ReplyDeleteAnother tick for the canyon
DeleteI once took a helicopter ride over the city of Sydney
Amazing
The first one that occurs to me is the orgasmic joy that happens whenever Hull City score the first goal of the match.
ReplyDeleteQuelle surprise
DeleteMy hub and I went to the UK 10 years ago - the farthest I've been ever. Getting off the plane at Heathrow, it was the same as every other airport. Getting on the train, nothing. But when it came up into the suburbs and I saw the allotments along the side of the tracks, I felt a zing through my whole body. We were there!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteThat, and having a haka done in my honour when I graduated from a course. No words.
I like the ordinariness of this comment
DeleteFalling in love with my farmer when after thirty nine years if happy married life to my first husband I thought that side of my life was over for ever.
ReplyDeleteA lovely memory x
DeleteThe first time I saw my husband. He was riding his bike with the rest of the cycling club, but I only noticed him...
ReplyDeleteDon't write today off, John...you never know when you're going to get a magic moment! x
Understood
DeleteSeeing Niagara Falls from a helicopter.
ReplyDeleteThree votes so far
DeleteMy biggest theatrical magic moment was in Amadeus. Salieri trying to push back an advancing stage while the chorus sang Lacrimosa. So dramatic I actually gasped loudly.
ReplyDeleteWatching the video above I can see why that took your breath away.
DeleteSounds amazing, on a similar vein mine would have to be the walking walls of the cathedral scene in Casanova the ballet
DeleteWalking up to the rim of the Grand Canyon -
ReplyDeleteTwo votes so far
DeleteLast weekend I saw a group of about 20 people I had worked with for 13 years to celebrate one guy's milestone birthday. Several in the group I hadn't seen since 2012, with only a few random meetups. It was such a joyful reunion, I smiled for two days afterwards!
ReplyDeleteI've worked with some great people, but this group was really something special.
Bonnie in Minneapolis
Human contact , trumps all
DeleteJohn, the fact that these friends wanted to see ME, as well, really squashed some COVID loneliness.
DeleteThe one that enters my mind { apart from the obvious giving birth to my children etc } is when we exited Venice train station and I glimpsed Venice for the first time ...... I stood there for what seemed an age with my mouth open !!!!! XXXX
ReplyDeleteThis is the moment I would like to experience
DeleteFresh from the sleeper train from Paris
Sadly, the Paris to Venice sleeper has been permanently discontinued. However, there are alternative options, e.g., daytime train Paris-Munich, then Munich-Venice sleeper.
DeleteI was sitting in a plane at Heathrow airport waiting to take off and had the thought 'I wish I had seen Concorde in real life, just once' and almost like a dream, at that exact moment, Concorde took off right outside my window! I had no idea it was at Heathrow and I smiled all the way to Glasgow after that!
ReplyDeleteHow lovely
DeleteWalking with my nephew one evening in the ancient orchard on my father's farm, we came over a raise and ten feet in front of us was a doe. She looked up at us with an apple daggling from her mouth. Don't know which of us was the more surprised.
ReplyDeleteI am quite loving those little moments
DeleteWhen my four-year-old grandson sees me, his face lights up and he runs to hug me, yelling, "Grandma!" It gets me every time!
ReplyDeleteYes! I love those chandeliers! Do you remember that scene in "Moonstruck," when Cher and Nicholas Cage go to the opera and Cher watches the chandeliers rise? Definitely part of the glamor of any evening at the Met.
ReplyDeleteI had forgotten that scene, I’m trying to find it
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Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LySTnNxMRzY
Being on Red Square for the first time at night in the snow back in the 80s when it was an adventure.
ReplyDeleteVery George smiley
DeleteJohn, with your description of being at the Met....you've brought back a wonderful memory for me. One birthday, many moons ago, my hubby surprised me by taking me to see Madam Butterfly at the Met. Of course, I sobbed and my heart broke because it is certainly a sad tale - but I was thrilled finally seeing a Met production. Thanks for the memory! Hugs from the base of the mini-mountain. Take care!
ReplyDeleteYou too x
DeleteMy first off airport landing and take off in a desert wash in my 1946 Aeronca Champ.
ReplyDeleteI need to hear more about this
DeleteI'm still waiting for mine......sigh.
ReplyDeleteXx
DeleteWhen the travel escort put our beautiful, sweet, 4 month old baby daughter into my arms after their 26 hour flight from South Korea. Our sweet daughter looked into my and my husband's faces like she had always known us. She is now a grown woman with children of her own.
ReplyDeleteLovely xx
DeleteWatching the sunset on the Nile with gentle music playing in the background.
ReplyDeleteOh ,how lovely
DeleteThe first time my husband smiled at me. (not on a date, I was the newly hired supervisor in a manufacturing facility. While everyone else looked at me with concern, obvious dislike and disbelief, he looked up at me and gave me the most wonderful smile and he boosted my confidence back up.) Of course I didn't know it at the time but I'm pleased how everything worked out and I still love that smile. We have been on many trips together, in the US (the
ReplyDeleteGrand Canyon and Niagara Falls included) and in Europe, with many more magic moments. That list would be very long. Ranee (MN) USA
Sweet x
Delete51 years ago, my husband followed mini-skirted me down a hallway until he could open a door for me and introduce himself. He, too, had/has a wonderful smile!
DeleteHugs!
On a high school tour of France with our daughter in the chapel at Mont St Michel when the nuns began to chant the Psalms.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely breathtaking.
I’ve been loving the eclectic replies
DeleteToday's magic: 2 pair of dress pants for 62 cents. LOL
ReplyDeleteSeeing the Berlin Philharmonic orchestra at the Sydney Opera House on a beautiful summer's evening...worth every cent of the $500 ticket
ReplyDeleteSeeing my first grand daughter come into the world by cesarean section. JENNY
ReplyDeleteCamping in the Rain forest in Washington on a beach. Got out of the tent to pee around midnight looked up to a swarm of comets dashing across the sky. In the corner of the scene a lighthouse slowly lighting up the water. Breathtakingly beautiful.
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