The skeletal bones of magic is not in the deception nor the skill (though, like a great athlete, one must master the physicality of it all) – it is in the Engagement. Do I have your attention? Do I have your trust? Do I have your buy-in and willingness to go on adventure? Start there. End there.

It took me a small while to analyze the purpose of being grateful, what it means to feel it, what it means to convey it, and the gift it brings to the one who communicates it, and often to the one who receives the words. Is gratitude a way of clinging to things in the hopes they won’t be