i hate seeing those bumper stickers, magic happens, but i nevertheless believe it.
i saw some magic the other day.
i watched joanna lumley venturing toward the north pole on a quest to see the northern lights, inspired by a book she had a small child, ponny the penguin
it is a charming and winsome doco
no, not informative (as some reviewers have crossly pointed out)
it was an adventure born in a small child's mind, and joanna journeyed to fulfil her adventure with a small child's curiosity and wonder.
and it was marvellous.
i know how she felt because when i was small, we had a beautifully illustrated copy of the snow queen, and as gerda goes on her quest to find kay, she goes into the high north. one of the pages shows a tiny gerda running across the snow while the sky is big with dark and ominous northern lights (atoms flung by solar winds)
so strange.
i think i might try for the southern lights though ... maybe in tasmania
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