Summer Wishes

  Fire. It's pretty amazing to sit around a fire with a cocktail in your hand and close friends around you on a Summer evening. Right?

  You know what makes it even better? Making wishes on wish paper. Wish paper, as far as I can tell, is plain old colored tissue paper cut into 2 inch squares but packaged very nicely.

  What you do - You take a piece of this paper. Our sheets were red which makes me very happy as it is my favorite color. You write a wish on the paper and fold it up. Then you light it on fire and let go. At first it drops down a bit but as the burning intensifies it floats upward.

  The little wish continues upward like a floating star until it burns out entirely. It is beautiful.

 

  See that little dot floating on the left side of the above photograph. That is my wish. It's a grand one. A secret one. And I will never ever really know if it comes true. But really, those are the best kinds of wishes anyway.

  So my advice.... take some time, slow down and make a wish. Watch it throw off its' last light and disappear. And the wish... Maybe it will come true. Maybe it already has. Maybe you will never know.