The King, The Castle Builder and the Magician (cont.)
The Magician is at a loss and feeling buffeted by winds sent to test his patience and his resilience. The magician can’t wait for the Castle Builder to send a new agreement, as there are many bills to pay and things to buy at this time of year. In fact the magician is at the point where he wonders if the magic will ever happen now, as the winter approaches with the first phase of magic scheduled for installation in the New Year. The magician knows the Castle Builder’s men have prepared the site for the magic to take place. This was undertaken many moons past and place lays empty. The magician wonders whether other buildings planned have also stopped…..contrary to the words of the Castle Builder who insists the agreement is only around the corner and a mere formality…. the magician sighs…..Yeh…whatever….but deep deep down the magician still believes that one day he will be asked when his back is turned to jump into action as time is of the essence!.
So what is a magician to do? Supply the magic he has agreed with two other existing patrons whose names are ‘The Keepers of History’ and ‘The Managers of the Land and Minder of the Animals’.
Magic for both these patrons has halted due to site conditions or availability of materials. All of which will be resolved and unfold in the fullness of time, but the magician can’t be paid for work he has not done yet. Only yesterday, correspondence from HM Customs asking (rightly so) for monies due in six weeks hence.
So what is a magician to do? Snookered on all sides, impasse, surrounded by Cul de Sacs? Agree to supply even more magic…… Indeed; This is how the magician has busied himself and it is ideas for magic that the magician grows weary from supplying. The magician has spent much of his time advocating that magic is the answer, and that this particular kind, or that specific sort of magic will be perfect. He has drawn pictures about magic, written about it, travelled and spoke about it. Presented ideas for it and met other magicians to create more than one type of magic. Several new patrons are interested and need details of what the magic will be made, and what benefits it will have, and how much does it cost, and when will it be delivered?
But the magician is weary at the moment as grows cross with frustration. In fact he even wonders what the Fkuncig Hlel good magic is anyway…. and why are magicians asked to repair a broken society when they wern’t even the ones who broke it!
Now listen though, the magician has had a wonderful year really, and seen many things. He has put together a slide show of things he has worked on, things he has done and places he has been in 2012.
My Year in Pictures. http://www.flickr.com//photos/rob-turner/sets/72157632183946008/show/
And here is a page link to the magicians website which shows a different spin on the story he just told you. http://rob-turner.blogspot.co.uk/p/news.html
And he wishes fellow magicians and bloggers a very Merry Xmas. The xmas card shows the Robin who lives in the bushes outside the Magician’s study window.
