Original subtitles

I'm David Copperfield and you're about to see

a whole lotta of magic

For me, watching this retrospective is like looking thru

a high school yearbook

It's got some of my best illusions some of the worst haircuts

put on film and clothing choices that kept the '70s alive

At the end, we've added some recent pieces, created for our

Broadway show

So sit back and take a look at 15 years of magic

Well, actually, 20 years of magic I started very young

David

Okay, go

I dunno where to begin

I've been doing magic all my life

I love magic. I love magic that's intimate but I also love magic

that's spectacular, like the year I decided to vanish a train

I had taken a ride with the Orient Express and I knew

I had to do something with it

Well it took me a year to find a train car

and a year to work out the illusion

A train car from the Orient Express

It weights 70 tons That's 140,000 pounds

It's 85 feet of steel and iron

A million dollars was spent just to restore it

A train on its tracks set on a floor of solid concrete

A group of spectators will surround the train

Holding hands forming a circle around it

Our camera this shot will never cut away

No camera edits, no video effects

You'll see it at home just like you'd see it

if you were here with me

Take a good look 'cause in a few seconds

the train we're in right now hopefully won't be here anymore

Everybody, pick up your ropes

Cover cloth

Keep your hands together

There are no camera tricks?

No. All the magic is done live

What you see at home is exactly what you'd see if you were

there with a live audience

And what's the most dangerous thing you've ever done?

See these spikes?

For a year I practiced hanging up side down

bound and strapped from ropes 10 stories in the air

Then we set the ropes on fire

I had two minutes to escape before the ropes burned thru

But on the night of the T V. special to make it a bit more

interesting, we added these spikes beneath me

I was up there in the air and I looked down on the spikes

and that really freaked me out

I didn't wanna just do an escape

I wanna combine it with the ritualistic challenges that took

in the jungles of African and the Amazon

Ceremonially tests of commitment courage

They'll hoist me 10 stories above the spikes

I remember looking down and the thought of falling on them

didn't make me very happy

I didn't wanna die that way

Don't try this at home

I hate these spikes

I do 500 show a year and people think I'm crazy

But I really love it What I love the most is interacting

with the audience

You never know what to expect It's different every night

and the weirdest thing can happen

Thank you very, very much You know, something really weird

has been happening to me

I keep getting these premonitions You know when you think of

something and then it comes true later on?

Well, I've been able to predict graffiti

Yeah, where it's gonna happen when it's gonna happen

and what it's gonna say In fact, I brought with me a...

brick wall tonight I got it from East Berlin

They weren't using it anymore And I've made a prediction inside

this envelope here

It's on a big piece of paper It's a big drawing that I made before

the show. Actually it's a painting

It's got some numbers, some colors a picture

I'm not gonna show it to you just yet

I'm gonna leave it sealed inside the envelope

I'm gonna hang it from this lamp right here

And I'm not gonna touch it

I do need to borrow a lady from the audience

and I'm gonna do that by throwing these bricks

Maybe I should just get her myself

What's your name? Tiffany

Tiffany. Big hand for Tiffany

Have we ever met before? No

No. We're gonna try to find some other people

we've never met before

We're gonna do that with this brick

It's a rubber brick, so don't worry it's gonna come right at you

Tiffany, you're gonna throw it into the audience when I tell you to

Turn your back to the audience If it comes close to you, catch it

I need a guy to catch this brick so show what a man you really are

Tiffany, whip it good. Go for it

Go for it? Yep

Incredible distance there

You, sir What is your favorite wild animal?

Not your wife

A tiger A tiger, fine

Tiffany

Shake up these cans of paint shake them up real good

Sir, what's your favorite color?

Yellow Yellow

What's your favorite color, sir?

Blue Good choice

Come with me, Tiffany

A blue tiger, Tiffany

Above this line

Stand up here

Stand right up here Here, I'll take that

Stand right up there and draw a blue tiger

Charles Darwin would be proud Take that brick and throw it

behind you as far as you can Whip it good

Nearest adult guy

Gentleman with the beard what are your initials?

D.G. D.G. What's your favortie color?

Red Great. Red D.G.

Hold on to this, Tiffany. Come with me

I do the easy ones

D.G., where are you? Yes. What's your phone number?

Just the first three digits

661. OK.

Now the last four digits

9737

Take that brick throw it behind you as far as you can

Whip it good

Nearest adult guy. Who is got it? You, sir, what's your name?

I'm sorry? Richard

Richard?

What?

Richard Richard

How do you spell that?

R-l-C-H-A-R-D

Richard

Tiffany, how are you?

Richard, the man next to you in the glasses. What's your name?

Harvey Harvey

Shouldn't it be...Harvay?

Richard

Just a joke, Richard

Who is the lady nearest to you?

Judy

He's nodding his head yes

I hope you've got call waiting

Maybe it's because of the spray paint

Put them on that table and wait for me over there

Tiger man, where are you? Where is the tiger man?

There you are

Now, we didn't prearrange this, did we?

No, we didn't

Tiffany, have we ever met before? No

D.G., where are you? Raise your hand

Dick, Harvey, Judy, I mean, Richard

Have we met before? In unison

No

No

Look up unison

Come over here

Stand right over here

This envelope has been hanging in full view the entire time

I haven't touched it

If the picture I made before the show matches the picture we made

That will be a miracle

Tiffany, hold on to this corner right there. Hold it up high

A blue tiger. Check it out

Does this not impress you?

It's even new

Hold on that corner there. Hold it up

Hold it up nice and high. D.G. 661-9737

You chose the color red. Check it out

And Dick loves Judy

Sorry, Harvey

This place is amazing

It's filled with magical mystery

What do you mean?

Look inside that trunk That's Houdini's trunk

When I got it I looked inside and I found a piece of paper

with Houdini's own instructions on how he was gonna do the

illusion that night

It's a classic of magic called Metamorphosis

Houdini would tie up his wife, Bess Lock her inside the trunk

and very quickly they changed places

I've always wanna do an illusion like that

It's taken me 14 years to find a way to make my own

When I look back over the past 15 years I realize I spent most

of that time creating new illusions

I grew up in New Jersey

My mom was in insurance

My dad owned a men's clothing store

Before I was in my teens I thought it would be cool

to become a ventriloquist

It turned out this place that sold props for ventriloquist

is also a magic shop

So instead walking out with a new dummy

I ended up with a bag of tricks

I started doing little shows in my home town

When I was 18, I got this part in a musical called "The Magic Man"

I got to do my own illusions and sing

And the longer the play ran the more illusions I performed

and the less songs they wanted me to do

So I guess I wasn't cut out to be a singer

When the show closed I starved in New York for a year

and my dad would slip me a few bucks to pay the heating bill

I sat in my apartment, inventing magic finding thr right music

and staguing the routines

I knocked on a lotta doors and sent out a lotta videotapes

One day I got a phone call to host a T V. show

I was 19 and I couldn't believe it

My first few specials were to music by Gershwin

My inspirations were Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire

I thouhgt I was really cool

I wore big collars, shiny jackets and a bad haircut

On my fourth special, I wanna go beyond what had been done before

So I took that shiny jacket and that bad haircut

and made an airplane disappear

A seven ton jet aircraft surrounded by scaffolding 12 feet high

This runway is a solid karmlock base

The plane can't go down, can't go up

This switch controls the lights at the back of the enclosure

When the translucent front wall is up the lights will back up

the plane, casting its silhouette on the wall

So you can see the plane right up to the moment it vanishes

The plane is locked into place

It will be surrounded by a human chain

50 spectators linked together

The spectators are being blindfolded to protect the secret

of the illuion

Hold hands till I say let go Let's do it

This shot won't cut away You'll see it as if you were there

with absolutely no camera tricks

If you can hear me, raise your hand

Now

Take your blinds off. We did it

I couldn't believe it If I had been sitting at home

I could think of some way to get outta it

But I was right here, and there was no way that plane could've left

It's just amazing

What happened to the airplane?

I dunno. It went It went

Thrilling, it was shocking You had chills

What did you think when you when they...they drop it

and you took down your blindfold and it was gone?

It's emphatical

We put together a brand new illusion

We're auctioning off a brand new illusion

The pieces I'm most proud of

The Airplane. The Train

The Flying. The Great Wall

The Burning Rope Escape and one other is the Death Saw

Give me an example of how you try to make your magic different

Well, there's a sensual side to magic

that hadn't really been touched

To me, it wasn't just about doing tricks

It was about taking the audience to another place

A special place so they could really suspend their disbelief

It was about relationships

Moving the audience as well as amazing them

It was about sharing a feeling

Sometimes romantic, sometimes funny

Sometimes grand and spectacular

Sometimes daring

And sometimes sensual

Dave when the audience applauds like that

you have to say something, like...

Very endearing back to them. OK

Repeat after me. I have never felt...

Never felt

OK, a little softer now I have never felt...

I have never felt...

So, so much love

So much lovey

In one room before

You're a regular Wayne NeWton...Dave

It's very good You love your audience. I like that

The Statue Of Liberty

Standing 305 feet high and weighing 450,000 pounds

I was gonna make her disappear

We constructed two scaffolding towers on Liberty lsland

in front of the statue

And had a helicopter to give an aerial view of the illusion

The audience on Liberty lsland was seated here

200 feet in front of the statue

A circle of lights surrounds the statue and shines upon it

A curtain would be raised between the towers

to hide the statue from view

If I successfully vanish the statue

Searchlights would pass thru the empty space that was occupied

just moments before

We even had radar to show the statue's position

In front of a live audience on Liberty lsland

the disappearance of The Statue Of Liberty

There's that jacket again

Right about now I'm thinking I hope this works

Entire thing. It just disappeared

What happened, where it was gone I have no idea

No idea where it went to

It was fascinating to watch it

I tell you. If I was home watching T V I'd be a little skeptical

But I was here. I knew it was there now it's not there

I dunno what happened to it

When that curtain went down and there was nothing there

I just couldn't believe it

Your reaction? I was amazed

I don't see it It was there and it's not there anymore

I've never seen a Statue Of Liberty disappear the way this one did

And as the audience watched

I brought her back

So David, what surprises you?

Well, I spend months of time and energy working on these huge

illusions, but sometimes it's the small stuff, the pure slight

of hand the audience really relates to

I need to borrow a gentleman from the audience

Let me see what I can find here

Yeah, really

Oh, boy!.

He can make The Statue Of Liberty disappear

but he can't walk down a set of steps

What about the people you work with?

It's weird, but the culture of my craft is sometimes strange

For centuries, magicians have been taking their assistants

and sticking swords thru them or cutting them in half

It's as much a part of magic history as as pulling

a rabbit outta hat

But I always try to remember my partner on stage

could also be a romantic partner

Right now we're gonna do something really cool

You and I are gonna do it together

So far you've been watching David do magic before a live audience

Now it's your turn to participate

In a moment, all you have to do is simply touch your T V. screen

As unbelievable as it sounds

David will try to make the magic happen right in your own home

That's right. Tonight you've seen me choose people from

the audience. Now I'm choosing you

It's important because if you don't play along in the next few

minutes, it'll be totally meaningless

Here's the plan If there are several of you in the room

choose one person to participate

Right now stand up and come close to your T V.

Close enough to actually touch your screen

Do it now

and touch my finger

That wasn't the cool part you can let go off the screen now

But don't move away because in a moment by touching the screen

You and l are gonna do something really amazing

Now take a good look at these destinations of flight

and listen carefully

Here's the idea. Tonight you're gonna put your finger here and

fly from place to place around the circle and I'm gonna find you

The amazing thing is even though you're at home and I'm here

I'll know exactly where you are

There are many places to fly to

A star, the clouds, a moon and so on

I want you to think a secret number between 5 and 15

Any number between 5 and 15

It's your choice

I have no idea what number you're thinking of

In a moment you're gonna move your finger the same number of times

as your secret number

For example, if your secret number was nine, you'd move nine times

1, 2, 3, 4, 5,

6, 7, 8, 9,

Bringing you to the island. If it were 6

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,

There are a lotta possibilities

This is your last chance to participate so come real close to

your T V. so you can touch it

Stand over here so everyone can see

Right now put your finger here and get ready to move the amount

equal to your secret number

Move as I count. Ready?

1, 2, 3, 4, 5,

and so on

When you reach your secret number stop and keep your finger there

Good

Now get ready to move in the other direction

The same number you just moved

The amount equivalent to your secret number

Move in this direction as I count Ready?

1, 2, 3, 4,

5, so on

When you finish leave your finger on the final place

you've touched

Now I know you're not on the rainbow so we'll take it away

And I know you're not in the castle so I remove it

I know you're not in the mountains so I take that away

And I know you're not in the pyramids either, so I move them, too

In a moment I'll ask you to move four times

Either in this direction or that direction

Whichever direction you want Move four times. Ready?

1, 2, 3, 4,

And keep your finger there

I know you're not

in the Eiffel Tower

Now I know you're not

in the clouds

and I know you're not

in the city either

Keep your finger touching the screen

I'm gonna take this arrow and put it right

Here

Remember you chose your own secret number and you flew at random

around the screen

But believe it or not even though you're at home and I'm here

I'm gonna find you Keep touching and watch

You're on the moon

Now comes the part of the show where I get somebody outta

the audience and make them into a magician

Sit back

Relax

Shut that kid up

I'm just kidding

Shut him up

You've done so many different things where do you get your ideas?

My library when I look thru magical history

The recurring theme is for people to pass thru objects

or walk thru walls

A friend of mine suggested that if you're gonna walk thru a wall

why not walk thru The Great Wall of China

I think she was joking but...

I took her seriously

The Great Wall of China 3,000 miles long

The only man made object visible from the moon

Built to keep armies from getting thru

Well, I was determined to walk thru it

This remote control camera will never cut away

It'll start on one side of the wall see me enter the wall

Without cutting away the camera will travel over the wall

and hopefully see me emerge from the other side

Walking thru The Great Wall of China

They even monitored my heart

I've read somewhere that magic sometimes is based on misdirection

What does that mean?

I'll give you an example One year I told the powers that

I wanna do a version of...buried alive

Where I'd be locked into a container

Covered with tons of earth and I have to make my escape

Well, they hated the idea They thought it was morbid

They wanna have nothing to do with it So I took the same idea

and put it into a building that was about to implode

You know explode?

And they loved it I don't think they ever realized that

It was the same idea that they said no to in the first place

That's misdirection

In a few hours the same thing will be happening

to that building behind me The only difference is I'll be insdie

Iocked in a safe, trying to escape

This is a sheet of polished stainless steel

It's one inch thick

It'll play a very important part in what we're about to do

I'll have 2 minutes and 30 seconds to free myself from the safe

inside the building

and get to this X

that we're placing on the steel plate

From inside the building to this X

Before the building blows up

We're inside the building which is completed wired with explosives

This safe was provided by The First Security Safe

The walls are 4 inches thick

We've installed a remote control camera so that you at home

and the people outside can keep an eye on the safe at all times

How you doing? The committee outside is checking once again

to make sure that the steel plate is solid

and that the X is in place

This timer controls the detonation of the explosives

It'll count down to 2 minutes and 30 seconds

and then you konw what

These officers are here to ensure everything is on the up and up

Gentlemen, you examined the safe? Yes, we have

And you searched me thoroughly?

Yes, we did Thank you very much

Just keep in mind that our T V. audience and our live audience

are seeing the exact same thing

You at home will see what the people are seeing right here

We'll simultaneously show our remote controlled camera

outside the safe

and our handheld camera so you'll see eveything

Gentlemen?

Guys, just one minute

I always wanna fly on stage

Not just float but really fly live

Right in front of people

Without wings, strings, or camera tricks

Well, it took 7 years to finally live that dream

And to make it really believable I wanted people from the audience

on stage with me

Hello, you come with me, please

Stand over here

This gentleman right here, come with me stand right over here

You can keep going back stage What, what's your name?

Bambi I'm sorry?

Bambi

Bambi

Your name is Bambi?

Are you serious? I'm serious

And you must be thumper

Yes. fine

Bambi, your name is really Bambi?

Yeah I like that. It's fun to say

See, I'm in this big Plexiglass box

Picture it solid gold on the back you can examine the backside

Mitch, you examine the front

I do wanna go home with some of these props

Examine this side, go for it

You sure you're not thumper?

Come over here

I want you to examine the lid Yeah, me, too

This is the lid of the box Make sure it's solid

Nice, nice and strong. Lift it up

Over your head

I'm just kidding come over here

Have a seat right here

Mitch

Bambi, you too

Before you do I'm just curious

Have you ever had any dreams where you fly?

No

Perfect. Good Have a seat right here, Bambi

Even when you were a kid you never dreamed you could fly?

When you were a little kid. Good

Mitch, your job

is to keep an eye on this Plexiglass box

Make sure nobody tampers with it, OK?

Bambi your job is to keep an eye on Mitch

Make sure he doesn't break the box

OK

Our committee from the audience is sitting behind the curtain? Good

Did you ever just sit around and dream?

I do all the time

When I was a kid I didn't think I fit in at all

I was an only child and l lived in these apartments where

there weren't any other kids my own age

So I'd sit outside by myself and I'd dream

so I wouldn't feel so alone

You know my best dream?

My best dream was to fly

Not in a balloon or an airplane

But to push against the air

Ride the wind and fly

You ever fly in your dreams?

Even today when I feel lonely or insecure, I go back to that dream

And it helps me leave my problems and insecurities behind

All the answers were up there

Well, a lotta people have dreams and

they don't do anything about them

Sometimes I'm afraid that's gonna happen to me

See I've been trying to fly for a long time

I guess if like I was trying I haven't lost

That was great. I was gonna...

This way

A lotta people think of me in terms of grand illusion

But in my opinion the most powerful magic happens

in the performer's hands

It's the purest form of the art

So now take a look at a light of hand sequence

That features a little tribute to my first magical influence

I want to...

show you a home movie

That's me

and that's my grandfather

He's the first person to ever teach me magic

I was about 10 years old and he taught me a card trick with 4 aces

And the aces would appear and disappear it was really cool

And since I was 10 years old it took me many months to master it

After I did

I showed it to everybody and I decided to make magic my life

Everybody thought I was crazy except my grandfather

who always gave me encouragement

I promised him if I ever had any success

that I'd do his card trick in my show

Well, my grandfather passed away before I ever did a big show

But grandpa...

if you're listening

tonight I'm gonna keep my promise

Ghosts used to be a standard theme in magic theater

Illusionists loved the idea of invoking the other side

Personally I was never big on it

I never got into ghost stories as a kid

I thought it was weird and caspers really creeped me out

Way too friendly

Then I heard about an old house of ill repute

Said to be haunted by the ghosts of the ladies

who made it infamous

I need some people from the audience to verify

what we're about to do

Two guys and a girl

One of the guys needs to be wearing a jacket that I can borrow

and the girl needs to be wearing...

clothes

I'm gonna show you an old newsreel

Back in 1927, the old Barkley House was sold at auction

to a stranger

a lady from out of state

Soon the whole town realized the house became home to a number

of working girls who were entertaining gentlemen callers

in the evening

Barkley House became the local scandal

and none of the townsfolk ever spoke it

except to curse it

As if their dreams came true a storm swept thru the state

and lightening struck the Barkley House

And the house and all the ladies of the night

perished in the fire

All that was left was one piece of the structure

The upper room somehow escaped the destruction

I was able to get the remains of that room

and reconstruct it here on stage with us tonight

Just so we could see if anything else...

survived

We took the actual wood from the Barkley House and built a room

that could be opened and closed for examination

And that's just what we're about to do

Our folks in the audience step right over here

What's your name?

I'm sorry Daniele

Daniele, come with me I want you to examine the inside

In New York, this would be a one bedroom

Right this way. I want you to check out the inside make sure

there's nothing tricky about it

Just a bunch of walls that open and close and nothing more. OK?

All right gentlemen step right over here

This gentleman would you mind standing over here?

The other gentleman can I borrow your jacket please

If you could examine these ropes

If there's anything in this jacket you'd like to keep

Now is the time to take it out

You see, there are no material object in the spirit world

So we have to provide the spirits with objects

so they can show their presence The jacket, these newspapers

A bell, some personal items

Some very personal items

All these things get placed inside our empty room

Are the ropes OK?

Excellent. Good I want you to hold on to these two

You take these two and you're gonna tie them around my wrists

The ends go around my wrists Very tight with a double knot

Very, very good

Yes, yes, yes

You take this

And you take this and cross behind me, please

Tie them in double knot very tight on my back

Yes, that's tight

Tonight, I'm gonna be the medium

The go-between between the spirit world and our world

So if anything should take place inside our room, I want you

to be sure it's the spirits and not me using any trickery

It's important that I can't move

The ropes go around my neck I want you to tie them very tight

around my neck, in a double knot

Not quite as tight as you tied around my wrists

This is the Madonna starter kit

You examined the room?

Is it free of any trickery? Fine

Why don't you stand over there

And gentlemen join me inside the room

I want you to step up here They're gonna hang you some ropes

Take those ropes and tie my ankles to the bottom of the chair

The ropes go around my ankles and the chair

with a double knot at the bottom

As quickly as you can, two knots

And after you've done that check the knots in my back and my neck

Make sure they're still secure and once you're satisfied

stand outside the room so you can see around the sides and behind

making it impossible for anyone to enter or leave the room

No self-respecting spirit would show themselves in the light

so we're gonna create a little darkness with this curtain and see

if we can make the spirits manifest themselves inside the room

Our next demonstration we're gonna use a gentleman's jacket

and show you something

you will not believe

Spirits, spirits

Take the coat

Gentlemen, step inside. Check my arms are actually thru the sleeves

Ropes tied tightly at the wrists ropes extending out the back

tied in a double knot

Thank you very much

Ladies, it's time

Spirits. spirits

Remove the coat

Now is the time we invite someone to join me inside the room

What's your name? Jonathan

Jonathan

Come over here Jonathan and have a seat

We'don't want you to be scared so we're gonna blindfold you

Take your left hand and put it on my shoulder

and your right hand on my arm

That's not my arm

May be I should be the one that's scared

Once again we'll try to make the spirits manifest themselves

Inside the room

What happened to your pants?

What happened to your shoes?

Nice pumps, John

Give Jonathan a big round of applause

Cut me loose

Everybody step down here Check the ropes in my back

Make sure they're nice and tight

Make sure the knots are still firmly in place

Then cut me free, please Take the scissors and cut the ropes

Right thru, please

Gentlemen, I need you to check the knots around my wrists

You're enjoying this too much

I'm just kidding

Everybody give our gentlemen

A big

round of applause

I need you to stand over there and both of you to step over there

Make sure nothing enters or leaves that room

Our next experiment is very strange

We found that if you close the doors to the empty room

and listen carefully you can hear sounds from inside

Very strange sounds it's as if the ladies of the house

aren't aware that they're dead

Their spirits have been trpped inside all these years

Now they're crying to be free

Let me show you what I mean

Shall we?

Everyone be still

No

Open it

Open it now

Open the back

Need all of you to come down, please

Step down here. Exactly

Because now's the time I invite all of you to join me

inside the room

You look really thrilled about this whole thing

This is for you. Step right inside

This is a blindfold for you. Step inside

And this is a parting gift for you

Step right inside

Once you're inside put on your blindfolds, please

Because we're gonna add one more element

These curtains were taken from the house before the fire

They're an item the spirits are familiar with

We're gonna use them to enclose ourselves inside the room

Hold up your hands. We're gonna hand you the curtains. Very good

We're gonna lift the curtains and try to arouse the spirits

Lift the curtains

A few years ago I realized a lifelong dream

I got to appear on Broadway in my own show, "Dreams and Nightmres"

Francis Ford Coppola was our collaborator

Working with him was another dream come true

Although he wanted me to stuff my cheeks with cotton

and speak with a Sicilian accent

The illusions were based on my own dreams and nightmares

We decided to end it with a sequence that invloved

a strong childhood memory

And so from the ending of the Broadway show

Take a look at a dream

within a dream

You've been terrific

I got one last thing I'd like to show you

I hope you like it

I hope it works

It's kinda cool

That's it

Maybe this side of the audience will like it better

Thank you

You see I never saw snow when I was a kid

I mean I saw it on T V. and in the movies

But I never saw snow for myself when I was a little kid

I grew up in New Jersey but every winter, my parents and l

would drive to Florida to visit my aunt

I never got a chance to really experience winter or snow

for myself when I was growing up

When I was about 8 years old I begged my mom and dad

to stay in New Jersey for the winter

Just so I could see snow for the first time

And they agreed

And that was the year there was no snow

Everyday I'd pray for it to snow No snow

I'd sit outside waiting for it to snow

It got closer and closer to Christmas Still no snow

On Christmas Eve I was up in my window sill in my room

praying for it to snow and I fell asleep at the window

My father came and carried me to bed

A few hours later in the middle of the night

there was a knock on my bedroom door

It was my mother

She said, David wake up

and I woke up

She said, David

Iook out the window

I looked out the window

and it was snowing

I couldn't believe it

and I ran outside

and I laughed

and I cried

as the snow hit my face and mu hands

That was the first magic I ever saw

When spring came and the snow stopped I cut up little pieces

of paper and threw them in the air to try to...

recreate the feeling I felt when I saw snow for the first time

There was paper all over my house

But it was my way

of keeping the magic alive

all year long

Even today I realize

how important it is to keep that sense of wonder

That child-like hope

knowing if you believe

and you want it enough

nothing is impossible