Faeries,
come take me out of this dull world,
For I would ride with you upon the
wind,
Run on the top of the dishevelled tide,
And Faeries
like a flame.
~William Butler Yeats, “The Land of Heart’s Desire,” 1894
Living in Ireland, at Bealtaine Cottage, it is easy to believe in Fairies.
Fairies are invisible and inaudible like angels. But their magic sparkles in
nature. ~Lynn Holland
The elemental spirits of Nature are all around…
As a child I was enraptured by the possibility of Fairies and often spent time constructing little altars to Nature wherever I went…arranging stones, plants and sacred things like I have done in the picture above and all over the smallholding that is Bealtaine…
Spread your wings and let the fairy in you fly! ~
~Author Unknown
Princess Edane… heard a voice singing
on a May Eve like this, and followed half awake and half asleep, until she came
into the Land of Faery, where nobody gets old and godly and grave, where nobody
gets old and crafty and wise, where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue.
~William Butler Yeats, “The Land of Heart’s Desire,” 1894
And the land at Bealtaine has been softly planted to embrace the possibility of Fairies…always keeping the inner child in mind and mindful of the great force that is Nature!
When the winds of March are wakening the crocuses and crickets,
Did you ever find a fairy near some budding little thickets,…
And when she sees you
creeping up to get a closer peek
She tumbles through the daffodils, a playing
hide and seek.
~Marjorie Barrows
We call them faerie. We don’t believe in them. Our loss.
~Charles de Lint
The Celts…Enya…enchanting http://youtu.be/rGwUpsyDJTk
Fairies… http://youtu.be/Vu_GyfW_AhI