Everything has been homogenized. Over time with television and jet travel everybody has blended together. Some of our wonderful charm has been lost.

I like to say magic is the world's second oldest profession a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that throughout the ages has blended superstition trickery and religion.

My family went through divorces and remarriages and the later blended home - and then watched that home explode too.

I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence destruction and terrorism.