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Swallows tweeting on a sailboat in Norway. Photo: K.Udland This happened in a remote bay in Sandefjord in the south of Norway. We woke up in the boat at four in the morning light by these swallows tweeting on the boat. Maybe 30 of them. I don't know why. The mainland was not far from the boat. Still they chose to rest with us. Twice. It was magic. I felt chosen - by nature. This was a real tweet .  Please don't tell me if you have a logical explanation to this - I'll rather stick to my magical explanation which makes me feel a little magic, too. I need that. I need something that is not all excel sheets, profit, project management, ROI, terror in Bhagdad, paintingthehouse, washingthecar, beingontime, planningmyday, doingmytaxes, makingthechoices, balancinglife.  I WANT MORE MAGIC!  BRING IT ON! I CAN TAKE IT!Thank you. Wishing you a magic summer! s o r r y m u m

One of my favourite authors. He was on my mind being a passenger in a microplane from Norway, along the western coast of Sweden, crossing Denmark and, after landing on several grassfields for fueling, reaching Norden in northern Germany. And home. We flew wearing swimvests - constantly looking for places to land - just in case. A truly thrilling and magic journey. I will never stop reading Jonathan Livingston Seagull or Illusions. This flight was a timely reminder to never give up and to believe. Read. Please. Richard David Bach (born June 23, 1936) is an American writer. He is widely known as the author of the hugely popular 1970s best-sellers Jonathan Livingston Seagull and Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah , among others. Bach's books espouse his philosophy that our apparent physical limits and mortality are merely appearance. He claims to be a direct descendant of Johann Sebastian Bach. Bach is noted for his love of flying and for his books related t...