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The Enchanted Speed Skating Oval
Friends:

This little slideshow is the record of a ïŹrst impression.

      First impressions are not always correct.

                   I love fairy tales.

               Peace and goodwill to all!
One winter day I headed out to walk downtown along the riverbank.
It was a bit too cold to stop for lunch.
The mountains were gleaming in the late afternoon sun.
I was worried the ducks might be cold. Suddenly---
I saw before me, where once was a ïŹeld of grass,
         a beautiful Speed Skating oval
It was built of magic pine beetle wood,
    and was as majestic as a palace.
Entranced, I walked up and stood beneath
   the magic pine beetle wood awning.
A door was open just a crack. I squeezed through.
For a moment I was blinded by bright light.
The air around me was as warm as a summer day.
I had entered an enchanted world of the fairies--
 a giant silver oval of ice beneath a roof of stars.
And round and round the oval skated the fairy speed skaters,
 handsome and beautiful and dressed in brilliant costumes.
Around and around they skated in a magic ice dance
Faster than the wind
I hid behind a pointsettia plant and
watched for what seemed like hours.
And then... to my great sorrow, they stopped skating
And began to disappear
In an instant they were gone
I humbly departed.
Oh what wonders I could tell of this magic place
Of its secret rooms of hidden treasure
Its precious ornaments
And fearsome statue
And towering walls of glass
As I looked back I saw a fence had sprung up
     behind me all around the entrance.
And I saw giant nets strung up--
to capture others as they had captured me?
There is a darkness in my heart
For now the world around me,
     though so clean and lovely
and full of life, no longer interests me
The Enchanted Speed Skating Oval has bewitched me.
At night I dream of it. And all the day long I hunger to return.
I would pay any price to go back to watch
   the fairy speed skaters glide around
              their oval of ice
I am afraid, though, that the price will be very high.
End

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