I am so happy to be a member of EF!
I can see from many blogs that have been posted here, that I am not the only one who has come across narrow mined people when it comes to fairy belive, and art.
I live on a small island called Als, and I guess that living in a small community can have it's good and bad sides. Most people on Als are friendly, but the longer we live her the more we get to know about all the local conflicts.
Every year we have a bonfire on the road we live on. My husband was approached by a new couple who moved in to a farm on a road running parallel to our road. They would like an invitation to join the bonfire. My husband told our not so nice neighbor, and he told me husband that the new couple wouldn't, be invited as they are not living on our road. My husband pointed out the there are no other houses on the parallel road, so if they can't come to our bonfire, they will have to drive to a city to join a public bonfire, but our neighbor didn't want to invite them any way.
We had a lady from a house in the other end of the road complaining about a sculpt we have in the garden. She asked me to get ride of it. She thinks it looks like the German Eagle form the time of the Second World War. I know for a fact that it's not an Eagle, but a raven from the Old Norse mythology, so I am not going to remove it from our garden. The sculpt came with the house when we bought it. It was created by a Danish sculptor from the Danish Royal art Academy in Copenhagen.
I think that my grumpy neighbor just doesn't like intruders, and the same goes for the lady further down the road. I love the nature and wild life on Als, but some of the humans are a bit strange, or perhaps I am stranger moving to an island with all my fairy ideas and art.
Just a few weeks before all this took place I painted this snake. I had this dream about a nasty snake hunting me. Snakes are my worst fear so I decide to paint it to get it out of my mind. In my dream I was scared of this snake, but at the same time I felt that it wanted to tell me some ting.
Gee,I thought the only crazy people neighbors were here in the US.LOL My oldest brother is handicapped, born with spina bifida 58 years ago and still going strong!!!! Wel his new crazy neighbor parks his car just enough over my bother's drivway to make it difficult for him to get out,so the next time he did it my brother called the cops. The neighbor got a ticket and got the point. Your scuptue is deffinatly not an Eagle, besides even if it was it could be an American Eagle, so the next time the old lady complains tell her its an American Eagle and you have up in support of the all the American Soldiers fighting agaiast terrorism. About you Bonfire, is your grumpy neighbor in charge? Here in the US both sides of a street are a neigborhood so if a neighborhood has something everyone is included.Keep up the good fight Marianne.
ElmaBreePS I told my husband about what a wonderful person you are and how kind you have been to me and all your neighbor trouble. He said All jerks have something that is making them unhappy so they what others to be unhappy too.
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