Quote for Today: W.B. Yeats
Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand. ―W.B. Yeats, The …
Quote for Today: Charles de Lint
Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused — hence all the old tales of elfin kingdoms moving further and further away from our world, or that magical …
Mindfulness Meets Playfulness: A Gallery of Faerie Houses
As we age, the pressure to settle down and turn serious builds. Doesn’t play keep us healthy and encourage awareness? A faerie house is a miniature structure crafted and/or placed outdoors to shelter …
Quote for Today: Annie Besant
To me in my childhood, elves and fairies of all sorts were very real things, and my dolls were as really children as I was myself a child. —Annie Besant
Quote for Today: Wendy Froud
My mother used to read to me every night when I was little. We got through most of the major fantasy books of that time. The Narnia books by C.S. …
Quote for Today: Catherynne M. Valente
Squeeze your eyes closed, as tight as you can, and think of all your favorite autumns, crisp and perfect, all bound up together like a stack of cards. That is …
Quote for Today: Jo Walton
I don’t think I am like other people. I mean on some deep fundamental level. It’s not just being half a twin and reading a lot and seeing fairies. It’s …