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The last book of the Gifts for the Goddess quartet (Spring!) has been a long-time coming and will soon be available at our website. During the time it’s taken to finish what was started years ago, the girls have grown up, my marriage has ended, and the family unit has moved forward in a different form–definitely more matriarchal and Goddess-oriented. Personally, I think this book will be the best of them yet. I would have loved to have it out before Spring began but life intruded and things are what they are. Then again, sometimes a little fairy dust helps–or doesn’t.
In taking a final look at the book before readying it for the printer, I felt a little like that old Bob Seger song, “Against the WInd.” You know, the line that says,
Well those drifters days are past me now
Ive got so much more to think about
Deadlines and commitments
What to leave in, what to leave out
I found some notes as I was making a final pass through the book–ones I’d forgotten and didn’t really belong in the book so they were edited out. It made me laugh because the girls were only about 3 and 5 at the time, and I’d just written a mini-chapter on keeping your allergies at bay during the early spring.
Here’s what got cut from the book but made me smile:
I walked outside to check on the kids. (I do this when they’ve been quiet for a while.) I couldn’t find them at first, but a sneeze alerted me. They’re very allergic to the Springtime of the year. Grass, flowers, you name it. The worst being pine and oak pollen, which necessitates frequent trips to the doctor. So a sneeze didn’t surprise me.
They stood in the edge of the front yard with a large, red, plastic cup.
“What are you doing?” I asked.
“We’re collecting fairy dust.”
They tipped the cup enough that I could see yellow power–probably 8 to 10 ounces worth.
The little one, the one with the extreme allergies and the expensive air filters in her bedroom, was about to toss the powder into the air so it would come down on her sister and herself like yellow fairy dust.
“Wait!” I yelled. “What IS that stuff?”
Then they showed me. They’d collected their fairy dust by shaking the pine tree blooms into their cup. Pollen. They were literally dancing in pollen.
can u send me a real fairy by mail?
Sure. Send a Self-addressed, stamped envelope. However, I can’t vouch for what the little one will do when you open the envelope after she’s been tossed in the mail for days or weeks. May even disappear in transit. If I were a mailed fairy, I’d be a wee bit perturbed.
Send me one! I’ve been a believer my whole life.
Hmmm, I’m obviously going to have to write a post on how to invite local fairies into your home…. Shipping the little critters around the country is likely to incur their wrath.
CAN U SEND ME 1 TOO?!?!?!
im only 12, but i LOVE fairies, and i want 2 prove 2 my boyfriend that im NOT crazy but jus make sure not 2 hurt her. and could u do 1 more favor 4 me? will u send me a green fairy?if u do, thanks! but if not then thats ok.
thanks ALOT!!,
ashley
but also, u could probably put her in a box, and and put her in something that would fit into styrofoam. like cut the shape of whatever you put her in, and then put that(with her in it)into the cut styrofoam. then mail her, but also tape it down, or put mor styorfoam on top. thats probably what id do, if i ever mailed a fairy. but PLEASE PLEASE dont hurt her!
Please will you send me 1 aswell.
I believe in fairys and have done all my life.
Me and my son and daughter live by this place but we barley moved in but anyways I let them outside and they also came back with some yellow glittery powder but they said the didnt know what it was so that night when I put the to sleep I went to my room and just went to sleep but like always I check on my kids every night around midnight and so they have this big window my daughter kaycee’s bed and I was looking there and i saw a little light but it had a shape of a humen with wings then came two more that were yellow and pink I was so amazed I went to go get my camera but when i got there they were gone so i checked the dust my kids brought back and half of it was gone I couldn’t believe and from that day on around midnight i always see little lights flying around and their all different colors so what i do now is leave the dust outside my proch and every moring i check and all of it is gone some times it leads a trail to the is big oak tree
will u please send me one sa well ive belived in faries my whole life
love Bella
p.s. thats my nickname
srry for misspelling as i did that on accident
YOU can not ship real fairys, fairys will only show themself to those they trust, You must believe, Make a fairy garden if you must, fairys love these types of flowers *sunflower, honeysuckle, fernleaf yarrow, summer lilac, red valerian, daisies, cosmos, rosemary, thyme, purple coneflower, pincushion scabiosa, french lavender and heliotrope
pansies, snapdragons, blue columbine, foxglove (foxglove, meaning “Folk’s glove” is used for gloves and hats), tulips (tulips are good for clothing and for their babes beds), butterfly, nasturtiums and a long list of other favorites to attract hummingbirds and garden fairies . They love fruit trees such as apple, cherry or pear. They like to use the blossoms for clothing and for spring festivities.* yes fairys are real, check etsy.com for fairy doors houses garden stuff etc.. if you really Want to attract them, they also hate messess, so keep your house/room/outside clean..
Here is an ebay seller, that sells well um fairy stuff!
can u pleas send me one i beleve in them i even beleve in mermaids u dont havef to but i will love to i wount tell enyone