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| Flower of an Unknown Land |
--originally published 4/4/2015--
I’ve heard it said that if you’re really interested, willing to wait
and watch and keep your mind open that reality will eventually present an
answer to most riddles. The thought of
the day has endured for almost a decade now, a delightful tidbit of curiosity
that simply refused to fade with the years.
It would seem the old riddle has been renewed with a purpose beyond
simple curiosity, and it would equally seem reality has indeed brought me a
piece of the answer to that riddle in the last couple of weeks. Let me build a bit of a framework so this
will make some sense.
Most everyone who knows me
knows I carry a love for Ms. Alex, the beautiful woman who hosted the muse for
me. She was, and even yet still is, a
powerful influence on my life. For all the years since her gift it has been a
curiosity to me: how is it that she came to be as she was when I met her?
With the subject of the
year set as happiness I find myself ever more often returning to the example
Ms. Alex set for me. I saw her work magic
in the lives of strangers (I’ll go ahead and call it magic, for a convenient
handle) that has come to be a reference standard on the subject. I’ve understood a bit of how her magic took effect
on those she took into her focus, but there are other facets of the phenomenon still
in search of an explanation. An
understanding of such a thing would be a most useful understanding reaching far
beyond the context of simply man and muse.
You see, hers’ was a magic powered by a happiness most unique to her,
I’d never seen anything similar before, and it appeared to be in a full and
mature form... the question, the riddle,
being of course what components of reality went into creating a contagious form
of happiness?
