A future in magic

Unlike juggling, which you can do purely for your own pleasure - as a meditation, a sport, a challenge to oneself, a pastime - magic doesn't really happen until you perform it and share it - just like acting - and elicit a response.

Of course, some jugglers do it as a social activity, but I never got far into passing and those patterns. I tried it, but remained mostly a solo juggler.

I say this because I have entirely stopped performing, and couldn't really even do you an impromptu trick if challenged, although I remember some stuff which still pops out occasionally (from origami to finger tricks).

However, I do seem to carry on reading the literature of magic (I love ingenuity) and watching it when I can, and can occasionally even fall for buying something online, just because I can!

Recently I got a boxed set of Lennart Green (the Master File), not only to watch the performances, but to have him analyse and explain, and it is a delight to find that (skilled though he is) he remains predominantly a great entertainer. Some of his skills are high level, of course, but much of his material remains accessible (shall we say 'intermediate skills', at least in the card specialist world).

but what a charming show!