Circle

I made hot cocoa this morning. Not the open a pouch and pour in hot water kind; the kind  you mix together with sugar, cocoa, salt, milk, vanilla, heat and enjoy with Halloween marshmallows.  There was a yellow moon, orange pumpkin, brown bat and white ghost. Very festive.  I cannot believe the speed at which October is flying by. Why do the months that are your favorite do that? Why do the months that you care about the least drag?

Is my mother the only woman left in the world who carries a pocketbook instead of a purse? No matter what type of bag it is a pocketbook. My Grandmother carried a pocketbook also. I have purses. My daughters say purse. Who says pocketbook? I love it. Maybe when I am old I will say pocketbook too.

Have you noticed in old photographs no one smiled? The old photographs that I have of my Grandmother and her family, they are usually smiling. It makes them appear odd. But they are genuine smiles. Their entire face is smiling not just their mouths. The photos of Eudora Welty and her family are like that. They are cousins. Their homes must have been full of love and joy. I have a few photos of my granny when she was young and with her beau. She is smiling but it is a very different smile. It is mischievous. There is something very elfish or sprite like about her grins, as though she is from some place other than here. My aunt has a smile like that. Celtic word for Sprite is Spriggan. Sprites are mostly found in European tales and stories and are not human like we are but other worldly and different still than selkies or mermaids. I wonder if there is a Spriggan living on my little bit of Scotland at www.LochaberHighlandEstates.com . I can barely wait to get there to explore for them myself.

If you step into a fairy circle and they take you away do you become small like them or are they really our size in their world and just appear small here? Can you really not get back once they take you from inside the circle? Or is it true if you can get someone to come to you there you can go? I am very sure I do not wish to be green and have wings. Are all fairies green with wings? Or are the Sprites just green? Or are they? I can see where I will be today….inside a fairy circle….as Mark said yesterday Ta Ta for now!Circle