Be aware of the things around us that bring about a feeling of magic. Be attentive. Observe keenly. Listen. As V.S. Naipaul wrote in The Enigma of Arrival, “see the way weather and light redesigns disregarded things.” During a summer road trip we listened to a reading of this passage by the Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard. You can find it in The New Yorker’s Fiction podcast. To hear an excerpt of this book read by Knausgaard, in his quiet, monotone, Norwegian voice, is like listening to a meditation. I am pretty sure it put you all to sleep on that drive, but I do encourage you to return to it when you are older. Pay attention to the details of your surroundings. It is this level of observation which invites magic into our everyday lives.