Ruby and I Reprise

Culpadirect is my friend Kevin's blog. Recently, he posted a watercolor which is the cover illustration of our new musical collaboration, "hope you're satisfied vol. 1". This drawing was made by Ruby. Recently, Ruby and I talked about Magic. She said it wasn't real. I said it was. Maybe it has to do with what you don't see, which is still there, like the wind in the heart-shaped trees, or the train that whistles distant and lonely outside the window of her bedroom, how we are where we are not, in thoughts, in prayers, in things we make up, like a painting.