We're about to celebrate "Thanksgiving" here in the 'States, which I just realized as I was about to post this poem. So so much more the appropriate. This poem goes out to all of my friends ("friended" here or not) in the heartfelt thanks I celebrate in having Drew & Be's Enchanted space, fore without it I wouldn't have known them. I feel especially grateful that Eve and Tabi have returned too, after a long absence.

~ I Wish for You ~

I wish for you
That all your years
Be filled with love
And free of fears

I wish for you
A Spiritual Guide
To bring out the beauty
You have inside

I wish for you
In your own reflection
Compassionate friends
Of the same direction

I wish for you
A family to care
Children to love
Warmth to share

And I wish for you
My Treasured friends
That your happiest moments
Never end

I know my wishes
Will all come true
'Cause you wish for me
As I wish for you

;^)

I just altered two of Jason's pics of his little one, uploaded them, then... I read his blog! Wow, this guy's family: Not only is he a Greenman (my last name says I'm descended from them) but he's a big fan of Joseph Campbell too!

Anyways take a look at the magic in these two kids, and while you're at it remember what it was like. (I've never stopped! ;^)

For months now I and others here have been worried about Eve, with no one able to connect with her. She's someone who sacrificed everything to help those kids in the hospital with the humongous number of costumes she'd hand-sewn for them. Someone who's heart goes out to all. Well... She's doing great! I finally found her through a long and extensive search, and she's been incredibly busy (sold out weeks before Halloween) as well as that she can't log in to Enchanted (she'd had this prob before, but now it's perm), so that's why we haven't heard from her.

She tells us "I will return someday, when the mist lifts. no more worrying, okay?"

My thanks goes out to Angelia, aka "Gossamer Wings" on MySpace. (Her own wings featured on the current "FAE" mag cover, which in no way slowed her down in connecting us.)

To my friend Jane...

You were the perfect little girl
Pouring your tea with cake
All while being abused
Hiding your heartbreak

Jumping and playing, oh...
Ballet leaps and fun!
But when the illness invaded
The dancing came undone

Those critical memories returned
Dragging you down in pain
Lost vision... bleeding skin
Seizures took your brain

Now shut down, now hidden
Caught in a tanglewood world
Yet you strived to understand
A caring flag you unfurled

For "Remember not"
Was all you'd wanted
When friends Tabi and Ickle
Took you away, undaunted

Yet Ickle loved the fae
Tabi took you to Enchanted
100% faerie dedicated
A faery ring was granted

You created baby faeries
Testing wings on a rainbow slide
From a wonderful stained-glass beacon
The children watched them glide

Your sharing gave others hope
A real friend where once was none
Your wisdom, magic, and specialness
Light from a golden Sun

For you'll not put up with suffering
Your faery nymphs will untangle
You'll just keep on reaching out
Even if upside-down your angle!

So, if Life is but a journey...
Giving and sharing amongst it's graces
Wont you give out this breath of life?
You'll see it in the faery's faces!


♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡



This is kind of an "inside poem," where knowing Jane makes it all the easier to understand. Sooo... Go and visit her. Get to know her. She's the kind of person Angels aspire to be, a beacon of selfless giving.

I've just spent the afternoon working on... flying fish wings? Well heck, I've not been able to photograph them, so I had to try a drawing... (good thing for my pen tablet!). Anyways, here are the 8 faeries and pixsea (with flying fish wings) from the Celtic Fest we just had. Also a pic of our Ent!

Cheers!

Kristy sports her new wings, while Nora, Iona & Shemaiah pal up.
This faerie spies upon me, while Kimi the Valkyrie just scares me!
A little one plays with the Unicorn, while Suga spins.
Joie pops out of a shooting star, while our Ent is surrounded by well-wishing faeries.