Do You Believe In Magic?
Icelandic lava flow: Mike Mazul II/NWF Among the many bands of the 60s and 70s there emerged the mellow sounds of The Loving Spoonful asking: Do you believe in magic in a young girl's heart? How the music can free her whenever it starts. That was me, the stranger, the newly accepted old man who now had to look up trending terms such as "67" and who took much longer to figure out the nuances of a new car (so discovered when we rented one). But even as I aged, how could I resist magic, or at least the allure of what appeared to be magic. The sleight of hand illusions of Richard Jones or Justin Willman still brought me back to that wonder in children's eyes, that "how did they do that" amazement that left you wondering if magic could really exist. The study of magic is not a science, it is not an art, and it is not a religion. Magic is a craft , said one professor featured in the wildly creative Magician...