I was so sad not to visit my great niece and nephew
in San Francisco that I started writing for them.
It all just fell out, whole cloth!
I was inspired by a book about adults improvising and
story telling to kids including events from their own lives.
So these are stories from these children's lives!
I hope to tell them many more! Meggan
in San Francisco that I started writing for them.
It all just fell out, whole cloth!
I was inspired by a book about adults improvising and
story telling to kids including events from their own lives.
So these are stories from these children's lives!
I hope to tell them many more! Meggan
In the Western Woodlands
For Fairies Everywhere
1
Once upon a time in the heart of the Western Woodlands on the side of Wise Mountain two fairy infants fell newborn from their very own green leaf. They arrived a touch soon and a bit early.
2
Mama and Papa picked them up and cleaned them off and wrapped them in fairy dust and placed them tenderly upon the healing dirt in the Fairy Forest.
They covered them with branches and plants and moss and the scent of wild blossoming flowers.
3
Mama and Papa kept them hidden there from fairy friends and fairy foes until they were fully formed.
One fine day the two crawled out together laughing and shrieking! They came home to the Fairy Tree House in the Welcoming Tree where there were rainbows and stars and sunshine and clouds and rain, just enough to make everything twinkle!
4
The children tumbled and flew with their lightning-colored wings. They hugged as they fairy sparkled. And they practiced their blessings and the old fairy ways and they kept growing stronger and stronger.
*********************
5
One sad day Momma Fairy got sick. Poppa Fairy scooped her up in his arms and placed her oh so tenderly down onto the healing dirt right there in the Western Woodlands.
The elder fairies brought green plant potions and secret healing poisons to help her get better and better.
6
While Mama was healing Grandma and Granddad, Oma and Opa and pretty Auntie and gentle brother all played with their wands and read fairy books and practiced flying with the fairy children.
7
Slowly, Mama Fairy got brighter and brighter and gradually all bright again! She fluttered gracefully from the fairy mound and came back to the Fairy Tree House in the Welcoming Tree where there were rainbows and stars and sunshine and clouds and rain, just enough to make everything twinkle!
Here she held her fairy babies to her heart and cried with golden fairy tears of joy and wonder!
*************************
8
After some time, and time is very different in the Woodlands, there came the strange word that at the edge of the Fairy Forest a new kind of bug had appeared.
This bug was slippery silver. It was not green like the bugs they knew and understood.
9
But Mama Fairy and Papa Fairy knew exactly what to do! They gathered the children and lay down on the healing dirt. And, they covered themselves over with branches and plants and moss and the scent of wild blossoming flowers.
10
The fairy elders decreed that all fairies stay quietly in their places so that the slippery silver bug could not get to them. The elders searched for the spells and blessings to turn the bugs green like the other bugs they knew and could handle.
11
One day the elders learned to use soap and taught all the fairies to use soap so the slippery silver bug would dissolve and not hurt them. They warded off the silver and turned the bugs green so they could not bother the fairies ever again.
12
And Mama and Papa and the little fairy children, Granddad and Grandma, Oma and Opa, and pretty Auntie and gentle brother gathered in the Western Woodlands with their fairy friends. They danced and ate fairy cakes and began to think of new fairy mischief!
The children cuddled and read and they hugged and they sang as they flew and they fairy sparkled. And they practiced their blessings and the old fairy ways and they kept growing stronger and stronger.
For Fairies Everywhere
1
Once upon a time in the heart of the Western Woodlands on the side of Wise Mountain two fairy infants fell newborn from their very own green leaf. They arrived a touch soon and a bit early.
2
Mama and Papa picked them up and cleaned them off and wrapped them in fairy dust and placed them tenderly upon the healing dirt in the Fairy Forest.
They covered them with branches and plants and moss and the scent of wild blossoming flowers.
3
Mama and Papa kept them hidden there from fairy friends and fairy foes until they were fully formed.
One fine day the two crawled out together laughing and shrieking! They came home to the Fairy Tree House in the Welcoming Tree where there were rainbows and stars and sunshine and clouds and rain, just enough to make everything twinkle!
4
The children tumbled and flew with their lightning-colored wings. They hugged as they fairy sparkled. And they practiced their blessings and the old fairy ways and they kept growing stronger and stronger.
*********************
5
One sad day Momma Fairy got sick. Poppa Fairy scooped her up in his arms and placed her oh so tenderly down onto the healing dirt right there in the Western Woodlands.
The elder fairies brought green plant potions and secret healing poisons to help her get better and better.
6
While Mama was healing Grandma and Granddad, Oma and Opa and pretty Auntie and gentle brother all played with their wands and read fairy books and practiced flying with the fairy children.
7
Slowly, Mama Fairy got brighter and brighter and gradually all bright again! She fluttered gracefully from the fairy mound and came back to the Fairy Tree House in the Welcoming Tree where there were rainbows and stars and sunshine and clouds and rain, just enough to make everything twinkle!
Here she held her fairy babies to her heart and cried with golden fairy tears of joy and wonder!
*************************
8
After some time, and time is very different in the Woodlands, there came the strange word that at the edge of the Fairy Forest a new kind of bug had appeared.
This bug was slippery silver. It was not green like the bugs they knew and understood.
9
But Mama Fairy and Papa Fairy knew exactly what to do! They gathered the children and lay down on the healing dirt. And, they covered themselves over with branches and plants and moss and the scent of wild blossoming flowers.
10
The fairy elders decreed that all fairies stay quietly in their places so that the slippery silver bug could not get to them. The elders searched for the spells and blessings to turn the bugs green like the other bugs they knew and could handle.
11
One day the elders learned to use soap and taught all the fairies to use soap so the slippery silver bug would dissolve and not hurt them. They warded off the silver and turned the bugs green so they could not bother the fairies ever again.
12
And Mama and Papa and the little fairy children, Granddad and Grandma, Oma and Opa, and pretty Auntie and gentle brother gathered in the Western Woodlands with their fairy friends. They danced and ate fairy cakes and began to think of new fairy mischief!
The children cuddled and read and they hugged and they sang as they flew and they fairy sparkled. And they practiced their blessings and the old fairy ways and they kept growing stronger and stronger.
P.S. Meggan's friend Joy Brown, sculptor and illustrator,
is working on pictures for this story!
is working on pictures for this story!
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