She floats all over the stage, then vanishes like a fading cloud

So where have i been? well lets see..In a land far far away, with Magic & Magicians and beautful distractions of all kinds, Painted tubes-boxes and Screens.. cards & dice & coins; ropes and silk handkerchiefs.. so what i've done is take some time off and boxed up some of this crap and took it to the dump. We [i] used to save empty card boxes- old "ratty silks"- rope ends [short pieces of rope from cut & restore] twisted pieces of coat hanger[some forgotten gimac] small pomm pomm's- small wooden balls - large rubber balls. You don't want to throw away some little plastic sword, cause you think it's from a Tenyo trick from the 70's. People bring in a box of used magic tricks and ask what i think it's worth - I look inside [ old metal tin's- clothe purses - plastic purses - cloth bags- plastic bags " they say-i guess you can put your linking rings in there" shiney boxes that have pictures of playingcards- cardboard boxes that have pictures of rabbits- a rabbit vase... this is crap they got at the 'thrift-store' These aren't magic tricks this is GArbage! then they smile and say "you could put your rings in that bag." Then i go off on them and suggust; i'd like to help them put their rings in their "sac"- So of coarse that doesn't go over well. So that's where i've been - actually i'm not going to say where i've been.[Thankgoodness we have insurance] I had a small a b c blocks on my desk for years- [no shell] I'd say to myself everday you can do it.. you can do it.. toss it, get rid of it.. ya o.k.- Finally, whipped into the garbage can, turned off the light's and went home- goodriddens. My anniversary present to Jennifer, this year was, i'm going to get rid of the magic tricks and illusions in the garage so she can park her car inside this winter. She said this is the nicest present you've ever given me. [I'm not sure on that response] I don't know.. it's going to be tuff - I found the small shell for the abc block's -and i'm not happy about it. It's a bad omen. So hoping your fine. Best Regards- Kahlow