Happy Fairy Appreciation Day from Mr. E…

Happy Birthday, Mr. E.! Thanks to you and your family for befriending and protecting him, Natalie. Thank you also for your environmental initiatives. I’m an avid organic gardener. I try to make the land I live on and look after as, healthy, beautiful, and welcoming as I can, not just for fairies but for local wildlife, for myself, my family, and friends, and for the sake of the land itself which is precious and irreplaceable. I have a part of my garden designated as a bat haven, a part for butterflies, a part for bees, a part for herbs and veg for my personal use, and a part just for the fairies. Fairies are diligent and excellent pollinators, which is something that not a lot of people know anymore.

I’ve lived a long while now and have known fairies since I was very young. (They look just the same and I do not!) The first I knew what they were I was probably about five, but have been seeing them for as long as I remember. Based on things my mother and grandmother said, the fairies played with me and kept me company when I was in my crib. My grandmother also saw them, but not very clearly. She saw shapes, glimmers, and movement. She could sense them more often than see them. My mother did not, but she believed, and was always respectful and very kind to them, and to everyone else. My oldest daughter doesn’t see or sense them at all either. She says she doesn’t believe, but I think she does, and doesn’t like them. My youngest is like my grandmother, sees glistens, movement, feels sensations. Her daughter is like me and can see them as well as we can see anything else. My youngest and her daughter are artists and their art and jewelry is informed and inspired by their experiences with fairies. They don’t advertise this at all, and don’t try to profit from their relationship with fairies in other ways, either, just as I do not. The surest way to alienate fairies is to try to try to exploit them for personal gain. I think that urge to exploit must be written into human DNA. No wonder even good fairies are slow to trust us with how we treat each other, the other species, and the planet in general. I have to hand it to all the fairies, good and bad alike. They are all kinder to us than we have ever have been to them, or anyone else “not us”. If this weren’t the case, there wouldn’t be so many of us. I firmly believe this. 76

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