| << Mount Diablo | 2005 > January | Clowning around in LA >> |
Monday, 24 January 2005
Magic ::
No, this is not about today’s announcement from a certain guitar maker. :-)
Saturday I left the NAMM show with Justin to go hang out in LA. During the drive I was telling him about an experience of what the unscientific side of me would call magic. Even the scientific side would quote Arthur C. Clarke: “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
Sorry, it might be a better story if it were concrete, but there are limits to what I’ll tell Google. It had to do with having gone way out on a limb in faith, with unexpected, wonderful consequences. (Hm, this could describe a number of events in my life!) I was telling Justin about how I’d found myself trying to recreate a similar experience, unsuccessfully.
Magic and expectations don’t mix.
Justin said something brilliant about it being good to believe in magic—without getting hung up on the “form factor” of the results!
I agreed. It strikes me now that an experience of magic has a quality of simultaneous surprise at the “form factor"—and “ha, but of course” when we see how it followed naturally from our previous leaps of faith.
We had a dramatic living demonstration of the principle at a diner in Hollywood about 9 hours later, at 4:30 am. Around 5:00 I said my goodbyes, drove back to Anaheim, and took a few pictures before scrubbing the makeup off my face and tumbling into bed.
References:
Clowning around in LA (25 January 2005)
| << Mount Diablo | 2005 > January | Clowning around in LA >> |