A Magic Moment

When it comes to being happy…this opinion I must express… We tend to search for magic moments…to ensure our happiness. But if we’re lucky we find moments…moments in a day when, even though we were not searching… magic finds us anyway. Take yesterday for instance: Our nephew and his wife who’d been on vacation in NC brought an apple pie back 600 miles and gave it to Deborah and me. We missed going to North Carolina this year… the pandemic causing too much of a fuss… Knowing this they brought a piece of NC back to Florida just for us. An apple pie made with fresh apples right off the orchard’s trees which they purchased after standing in line…from one of our favorite bakeries. They handed us the pie…knowing it’s a pie we both adore and I’m not sure if it was them…or us…who happened to be smiling more. In fact Deborah was so happy…I thought she was going to cry… as we both understood there was more than apples…there was magic in that pie. So to keep the magic going…with this pie we were bestowed… we covered it with vanilla ice cream…and ate it al-a-mode. And with each bite we felt lucky to have that moment… that moment in our day…. when, even though we were not searching… the magic found us anyway. (And let me tell you, wether you find it or it finds you…as I now end this little ode… Most magic tastes a little better when it’s served up al-a-mode!)