Hot Chocolate and Coffee

 The Magician and the Fool got together for hot chocolate and coffee this morning.  "How did writing go?" Fool asks. 

"It went well," Magician said moodily. "We talked of shapeshifting, consciousness, brains, the complexities of other species and what are our daily past times."

"What did you get from all that?" asks Fool.  

"I am still weaving it all together," Magician replies, stirring their mushroom clouded chocolate. There was a lot of talk of Neuro Linguistic Programing. - you get what you focus on."

"I looked NLP up", Fool said. "You know - googled. The first sentence says on wikipedia calls it  pseudo-scientific."

"Oh," Magician says. "Pseudoscientific! my favorite hopping off ramp for alchemical thinking."

"Alchemical thinking?"

"Yeah, you know, how magic is really real, but you Fools won’t allow us to give sentient animation to any of science’s findings. I find real science so dead, so reductive. I am grateful for all it has disproved, but it is lousy for bringing possibility into fruition. Alchemical thinking is allowing the magic, the life, the stories and the archetypes to seep into. It is the choice to find, celebrate  and create meaning"

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Writing Prompt

My favorite past-time...

is living like there is time.

Does it make sense there is no one favorite thing,

but the stew of the day,

taking tidbit by tidbit.

No rush, no deadline.

Having the ability to get up with a mix of spirit and news,

coffee and chocolate filling the need to consume.

A stroll to the garden, 

watering a patch here and there.

A sit down Tarot cards,

adding symbolism into the day,

I wander among the archetypes.

Taking time to write.

Even enjoying cooking and  washing the dishes.

Then there are the pauses,

where I sit and roll a joint, 

smoking it, slowly punctuating in between times.

The taking of naps, not denying myself rest and restoration.