Do you believe in magic?

"I believe in music the way some people believe in fairy tales." -- August Rush

There is something fundamentally ungraspable (not a word, but now it is, boom that just happened) about good music and good friends.  I have a few friends that I get to share a magic connection with.  I don't know why it is them in particular.  For instance, I have a good friend that every now and again we get together and just play.  We set up a guitar, a bass, and the piano, and just play.  It is hard to explain it pass that.  It is something very hard to explain to people, but it's awesome, kind of like a really deep conversation with an old friend.  You feel refreshed and connected.  Well perhaps that is the best explanation.  When this particular friend and I get together, we talk.  No words, unless there is singing, but there is joy found and expressed, hard times uncovered and dealt with.  And at the end of it all there is a happy feeling inside, and a smile on the face.  Lif is a fairy tale for me, one that I get to take part in.  Not a "happily ever after" kind of tale, but one with ups and downs and unexpected turns.  No matter how messed up things are around me, I am still just happy to be an extra.