Tag: fae

  • Why Fae?

    One of my many projects (me? overcommit? nah!) is blogging for a brand new inspiring website that’s going to be launched soon. I’m one of a dozen or so bloggers. We all have superhero-style titles as part of our pen names, like Taran the Magnificent (yeah, I totally made that example up). The one I…

  • We’re the Sane Ones?

    “Chaston wrote that men and fairies both contain within them a faculty of reason and a faculty of magic. In men reason is strong and magic is weak. With fairies it is the other way round: magic comes very naturally to them, but by human standards they are  barely sane.” – Susanna Clarke, in Jonathan…

  • On Faerie Tales

    I love faeries, and stories about them. What images are conjured up when you think of faeries? In modern culture, we often shortcut straight to Disney movies and the tiny winged females that decorate little girls’ bedroom walls. I’m no cynic, and I happily watch Disney films with a willing suspension of disbelief and no…

  • The Looking Glass, Again

    My friends and family are mad – in a good way. I often say that if you’re not weird in some way, well, you’re just not all that interesting. In my community, we’re weird in a colorful variety of ways, as the photos below will attest. This is the second year I’ve participated in the…

  • Through the Looking Glass?

    I don’t know if it’s because it’s the dark of the moon, or I’m trying to do too much, or what, but last night and today I feel like I’ve gone through the looking glass. My mind is all mixed up, and things seem to be out of place…though it’s me that’s gotten flipped around,…

  • Have Some Delicious Fruit

    “Take the worthiness that is yours, and let the ‘Fairies of the Universe’ assist you. Stop taking so much responsibility upon yourself, and live happily ever after. Shorten that crevasse between where you are and where you want to be, on every subject, to now, now, now, now, now. Ride the wave. Just pluck the…