Recently, I moved to North Carolina and found that there is a fig tree growing in the front yard! One day, I walked past, and was excited to see these mushrooms growing beside the “fairy door” at the base of the tree.

Fig trees, mushrooms, fairies–all have lore. I am often a “logical” minded person, but I felt a surge of Magic when I saw this!

That is important.

Einstein said “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” Allowing emotion and imagination deepens life and provides important information that logic alone cannot give.

Imagination and emotion create connections to a person’s inner self. Logic alone stays on the surface. To make decisions that are truly good for us, we need to reflect on emotional aspects and connect them to logic. We can pay attention to our deepest longings and connect that information with the logical part of ourselves. When we use our creative imaginations to aid that connection, we can make better-informed decisions.

That “fairy door day” was a reminder to me to be present and creative, to allow hopefulness while in the midst of a stressful move to a new place. What imaginative reminders have you noticed lately?