* Iceland didn’t just get it right when it came to the financial crisis. They also understand how to treat their elves.
The main thing for me was to help the elves. They were about to lose their home under a big road. Árni wanted to thank them for saving his life, so he went through all this trouble to move their home to safety. Árni asked me to ask the elves what they wanted to do – if they wanted to move the rock to another location nearby, to move out of the stone or to move to Vestmannaeyjar.
The elves took their time to discuss the matter with each other and get information about Vestmannaeyjar. They decided they wanted to move with their old home to the island, but they had a few demands. They wanted to travel in a separate travelling unit – a basket warm and cozy in a safe distance from all the big trucks needed to move their house. They wanted the big window wall on their home to face a good view over the ocean, and they wanted their house on grass so they could keep sheep. Árni could promise all this, and I promised to move the elves myself in a basket all the way to Vestmannaeyjar.
Maybe there’s a connection.
* Anybody doing any magic around this? If so, care to share?
* “You know what I believe? I remember in college I was taking this really great math class taught by this tiny old woman. She was talking about fast Fourier transforms and she stopped midsentence and said, ‘Sometimes it seems the universe wants to be noticed.'”
“That’s what I believe. I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is improbably biased toward consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed. And who am I, living in the middle of history, to tell the universe that it — or my observation of it — is temporary?”
~ The Fault in our Stars by John Green
* Washington, D.C. is full of Goddesses. Here’s Minerva at the Library of Congress:
Minerva
Where are they in your city?
Picture found here.
I really enjoyed the whole story about the moving of the rock of the elvish family (three generations in one rock!) — and the best part for me — when he bought tickets for the elvish family for their ferry ride — and the ferry company only charged them for the adults — not the grandparents’ tickets nor the children! A brillant story — worthy of a wonderful children’s storybook and film …
Re: bee magic. Have you seen this? http://redmoonmusings.com/bee-blessings/sacred-beekeeping
I love that Elf story!
I am still stricken by the loss of my bees; I don’t think I can do magic “there” until I can stop crying about it…been five years now and I still am incapacitated by the memory.
re: interesting and disturbing thoughts on gun issues …. Be sure to watch John Stewart’s video on the ATF …..
There is a sculpture of the Goddess of Democracy at UBC:
This work was sponsored by The Alma Mater Society of UBC, The Chinese Student and Scholar Association of UBC, and The Vancouver Society in Support of Democratic Movement in 1990 who proposed to recreate at UBC the symbol of democracy, which was crushed by Chinese tanks in the early morning hours of June 4th, 1989 in Tiananmen Square.
The statue is a replica of the existing figure constructed by Thomas Marsh of San Francisco. This statue is made of an epoxy and white marble dust mixture. It was cast from a fiberglass mould and located at the SUB Plaza. The face and arms are polished smooth to contrast to the rough finish of the rest of the sculpture.
Image here