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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~GOOD NEWS: Peace-making operations continue in America, Earth-side, as newly elected President, Barak Obama pulls his forces of light team together. Humans are hopeful that this new leader will be the man to save the world from terror and war. They also expect him to convert all companies to green energy, to come up with a health care system for everyone and to save the animals and lands, bring justice to all, to release tortured prisoners, (etc!)...and oh yeah, AND he needs to save the economy.. save the economy.. Did I mention he needs to save the economy? The list is longer than could possibly be posted here. Being a human President is one one job I would not want to have!
Teresita Mosquita
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a column of HOW to's by Eny Won.
Eny is a frequent contributor to Times of Fae.
HOW TO OF THE WEEK: How to attract faeries into your domain
1 . Be Nice. Funny, this is the same for finding faeries or doing anything with faeries for that matter. It's our number one rule in the Land of Fae and we encourage niceness when it comes to any kind of dealings with faeries.
2. Get out in Nature. Where on Earth do you expect to find us? At Walmart? We really don't hang out in public places or shopping malls...at least not in your human realm. We make our home in nature, so that's where you will initially make contact with us. Sorry folks, you'll most likely have to get outside. If you are bed-ridden and can't go outside, then see if someone can open a window for you and when you are alone, ask us to come for a visit. You don't have to call for us, you can whisper, we have very good hearing.
3. Never try to capture a faerie. Do you really think you can put us in a jar like a lightening bug and we'll just stay in there until we suffocate or starve to death? No way. We can feel you coming a mile away and if your intentions are not completely kind, there's no way you will catch us. If you do, we might be inclined to play a few practical jokes on you. Don't worry, we'll be nice. Sometimes it's nice to teach lessons to others.
5. Host a faerie tea party. 
There's nothing we love more than a great party. We love sweets and treats and dancing and live music. We'll pretty much drop everything to go to a fun party. We like festivities as much as the next guy, but not the kind where people get wasted and beat each other up. No, we prefer something fun and whimsical, like a dress-up tea party.
6. Be a child (again). Don't get me wrong, adults are perfectly great, and you can be an adult and have plenty of faerie friends in your life. What I mean by "be a child" is get back to innocence. See the world with new eyes and wonder about everything. Lots of human adults are sometimes very serious and set in their ways. We like playful people and we especially love children.
7. Write a letter. I can understand why you might not want to have faeries in your house, and we faeries don't always like being in human houses anyway, but you can certainly invite us into your yard or into a safe space. Write us tiny letters and leave them on your window sill, or if you lost a tooth lately, you can leave a note with your tooth and the tooth faerie can drop it into the nearest post box.
8. Make a faerie door. It's easy for us to get into a human house, but we generally won't enter unless we feel welcome. If you make a faerie door and prop it up against your window, we'll know what that means. After all, why else would a human put a tiny door in front of a window? The best window is your bedroom window. The worst window is the bathroom window.
9. Faerie furniture is a favorite.
You might not know how to make faerie furniture but it's pretty easy. We like feeling welcome and if you want us in your home, we won't necessarilly feel comfortable on your giant furniture. There have been a few squashed faeries over the years as a result of hanging out on furniture that's not size-appropriate. If you make a faerie chair and put it on a book shelf somewhere, we know you won't sit on it. We like bookshelves and little cubby-like areas where we feel safe and sheltered.
10. Make a faerie house. You can make a miniature house out of a milk carton or a cardboard box or you can take a class from Tatiana at the Faerie Factory. Tatiana conducts workshops on faerie cottages and furniture and even faerie grottos and villages.
Just beware, once you start, it can be addictive. Many of Tatiana's students have become faerie house addicts, and many humans in your realm have tried to emulate her faerie houses and furnishings. They say imitation is the best form of flattery, but in the human realm, it's illegal to violate intellectual property rights.
The cottage featured was made by a human (Barbara) in one of Tatiana's classes. It is occupied by two charming faerie girls who are best friends.
You can make a faerie house
Saturday,
December 13,
9-3
at
Olbrich Gardens, Madison, WI
Earth-side.
www.olbrich.org to sign up. Faeries are welcome and the fee is waived. Just remain invisible please and keep a low profile.
Sassy Tween faeries tell you what they really think.
HEY
YOU!
I've seen some of the latest fashions in the Human Realm, and I am so surprised over and over again when I see humans dressing exactly alike for a season. The next season the look changes and everyone follows the trend to dress exactly alike again. It's so bizzare.
In the Land of Fae, we do have some amazing fashion designers, but I'm glad everyone doesn't just copy one style for a set period of time.
I have some dresses that I've worn until they fall apart. I just can't imagine having to change my taste according to what a few people dictate as fashionable or cool at a particular time.
Then there's the situation where two people run into each other wearing the exact same thing and are horrified. How can they be upset about having the same things when they follow the same fashions? My best friend and I do have matching tulip blossom mini skirts in the same exact color, and if we both happen to wear the same skirt to the same place at the same time, we consider it good luck.
Maybe I'll be a human fashion designer when I get out of school. I hear the return can be huge. I would love to make a ton of energy units so I could share my wealth with everyone. Especially the tattered fae who live under the bridges. Maybe I'll go down there now with my BFF, Polly Pocketsful and see if she has some clothes to get rid of too.
by Twitter Sprinkle
Twitter is a young tween faerie who is a nature artist and faerie right's activist. At her young age she has become quite well known for some of her amazing nature constructions.
FAERIE FLY-IN LIFTED HEARTS
254th annual Faerie Fly-In 
Faeries once again displayed their beautiful wings and personal flying ability as they spun their way through the sky at the 254th annual Faerie Fly-in. Group acrobatic aerialists flew with amazing grace and precision and in tight synchronized formation, twirling fanciful ribbons as they flew. It was a splendid sight for all to see.
Fun related workshops were also held, including paper airplane making, wing painting, flight school basics and flight choreography.
The remodeled airplane model featured above is a replica of a human bomber plane. It has been converted to a peace plane, to be used in peace-keeping operations when it's not doubling as a plane taxi or a private charter.
The invisible automatic shooters (we prefer not to use the word guns) are now equipped to shoot confetti flower petals, rice, grains, snowballs or raindrops. The plane can make extremely tight turns and can become invisible in .032556 seconds.
OLD NEWS:The Faerie Wars are OVER! This moonth, we celebrated the 100 years of peace we have had in the Land of Fae since the last faerie warrior died of old age -in Human year 1908. Unfortunately, it did take a while to declare the Wars over despite the fact that it had been many years since the last real fight had occured.
It's really just a red tape issue from some rule made up when lawmakers made laws for no apparent reason. Fortunately, in the Land of Fae, we have stopped making rules and have begun un-making them. How liberating it is to unravel knots that were tied ages ago by faeries of previous power. Instantly, their power is as dead as they, when their out-moded rules are un-declared and their regulations deregulated.
Some of my human friends have suggested they should do the same thing Earthside. First things first, though, there's a war or two to end and a few huffed up leaders who need some ego soothing Any peaceful, loving faeries up for the job of un-ruffling feathers?
~Symphony Gladstone
NEW NEWS: Teeny McFae gave birth to a teeny weenie (boy) faerie last Sunday. As expected, the sun was shining brightly, but not as bright as the glimmer in Mr. McFae's eye. A prouder father the Faerie World has never seen. They named Teenie weenie's itty bitty one "Heyou," but for short, they just call him "Hey." What a cutie he is.
On this same day, 20 minutes later, Miss Tweedle Deedle and Mr. Dunn Dum gave birth to conjoined faerie twins. The twins, both named, "Ditto" are expected to survive a separation operation after they have passed through their infancy. Unfortunately, they were both born with just one wing, which will be fine for flying together, but once they are separated, a separate surgery will be needed to give each one a new wing.
The Wing on a Prayer Foundation is praying and hoping that more faeries will sign up to donate their wings when they retire from flying. All donated wings will be repaired, if need be, and given a fresh look by a professional airbrusher. Ditto and Ditto will be needing wings in about a year, size 2, blue with sparkles.
BAD NEWS: A terrible black oil slick is moving toward Ben Golly's Bay, leaving a wake of dead and dying flying fish and swimming birds behind. It is expected to reach the prestine shores of diamond beach, where it's likely to kill more animals who rely on the water and beach plants for food. Sources aren't sure how the oil was able to seep through into the ethereal realm since it is a very physical substance.
Specialists speculate that most likely the spillage of oil into our realm is a result of many faeries perceiving and questioning an illusion into reality. Sources say it's possible to mystify the oil back to Earthside if enough faeries continue to believe strongly that the ethereal realm cannot maintain dense physical form. Unfortunately, this means that there really is an oil slick in the Earthly ream, and it is killing fish and other wildlife there.
This is truly some of the worst news we've had in ages, but unfortunately Earthside it's common news.
An energy clean-up task force has been deployed to help tidy up the mess.
FAERIESCOPES
By StarFire Windscape
MOONDAY: Moondays are mood days, where people and faeries tend to be affected by the moon and the tides more than other days. Moonday is a great day to focus for the rest of the week (man, do we dislike this word for the days. It sounds like "weak" which is not fitting to call a time period so often referred to.) We call it a timeset. There are many timesets, like the moonths and the days and the seasons and years, which we call "rounds."
TRUTHDAY: This is a day of complete and total honesty. Be truthful in all that you do. This is a day to express how you feel without holding it in and without being in any way unkind. On this day when everyone is speaking only truth, the listeners must give amnesty to the teller. This is also a day of non-judgement. This Truthday I dare you to tell everyone the truth and see what happens.
WITNESSDAY: On witness day everyone is encouraged to bear witness to another's burdens. This is a day of relief, for Flyday is near and the rest of the days are all down hill until the next Moonday. That's why we in the Land of Fae also call it Hill Day. On witnessday, take note of what's going on around you. Be a witness to life.
FURSDAY: A day to be kind to our furry animal friends. It has developed into a day of gratitude. Be grateful and give thanks today. Some call this day THANKSDAY. This is my favorite day because as I give thanks I become grateful and it always makes me happy and light-hearted. It's still nice to remember it as Fursday and pet a pet..
FLYDAY: Flyday's are great because it's time to FLY. The skies will be especially filled this Flyday because of the Holly Jolly Dayze coming up. What are you doing just sitting there? Get out and FLY!
RETURNDAY: This is still sometimes called Saturnday, but since Faeries have stopped focusing on Saturn so much it has been known more as a day of giving returns, doing favors, being nice and doing anonymous things for strangers or folk we respect. Give your returns also to the Giving Tree, to insure they will be there for those in need.
SUNDAY: Hopefully the sun is shining on you brightly every Sunday, but sometimes it just doesn't happen that way. This Sunday, spend some time imagining that you are on a warm beach, soaking up the rays. If you happen to be in the snowlane region, it might be the only way to warm your bones.
Don't put your cart before your horse!
Last Saturnday morning, Timmy Little put his horse before his cart and accidentally ended up on the North side of Highland Village. He thought he was heading for the South side market where he was supposed to sell his wares, but of course went in the wrong direction.
"I knew something was different, but I just figured it was because I got up on the wrong side of the bed." said Timmy. "Or it might have been that my socks were on the wrong feet. For a while I thought maybe it was backwards day because everything seemed to be going in the wrong direction."
Fortunately for Timmy, he wound up in the parking lot on 3rd street, where a local business bought up every last item he had to sell, including his unusual backwards cart and horse. Now he just needs to figure out how to get home.
THE VERY FAST NEWS
Just this moment, thousands of your cells have died, but thousands more are being born. Your planet is teeming with life and you are God to them. Will you make them worship you and punish them if they don't? Will you speak to them lovingly as you host their life on your body planet? This very moment you are master of millions and yet they create you with their existence. WIthout them, you would have no physical body. Where will you take them now? What will you do today? Another moment is around the corner and you are a powerful creator.
Dear Miss Daisy Bee,
I've heard all abut the Good faeries and bad faeries and I've even seen pictures of them. How can this publication claim there is peace in the Land of Fae when there is pretty good proof (including first hand accounts) that there are some really bad faeries out there? I'd like to believe it's all good now and the faerie wars are over, but how can that be when there are still bad faeries? How are humans expected to erradicate all terrorism when some people seem to be just born bad?
I'd like to see peace on Earth, but I think expecting total peace is a pretty lofty and unrealistic goal.
Miss Goody Treeshoes
Dear Miss Gooody,
I have gotten a TON of letters on this very subject.
Humans WANT peace on Earth but they don't believe it's possible because there is so much "terrorism" in the world. Of course, terrorism is just the act of a bully who likes pointing out all of the dangers around in order to manipulate or terrify others. Most often, the one pointing the finger is giving power to those who choose to inflict harm, and he himself is a terrorist. These are often the ones who ironically are most terrified in life. They are told a story from their youth that there is danger in the world, and of course, the danger is on the other side of the line. This is why we have stopped drawing lines, other than the line around the Land of Fae, which has been (re-drawn) just lately, and the natural line between Earth-side and The Land of Fae.
Yes, we have had our share of terrorism in the Land of Fae, and indeed there are a few faeries who slip up and fall into some of the natural temptations, some faeries hurt others, but for the most part, not with intention to harm.
In the Land of Fae, we have spent countless hours of meditation in order to purify the lands. We have blessed each other and all that exists within our realm and our enlightenment and the lightenment of our lands (yes, it happens!) has made the Land of Fae a place where instant transformation occurs just by being there. It happens in your Earthly ream as well, in sacred places.
Of course, some sacred places are charged with years of stubborn rage and anger toward those who disagree with each other.
Here, we now bless everyone we encounter, and we show gratitude and appreciation for each other.We bestow gifts of love and kindness on each other all the time. It's not expensive to be generous. one can give kind words or gifts of selfless action and it's absolutely free!
If a faerie is flying slow in the fast lane, we don't express fly rage anymore, we gently glide above or below them and give a friendly wave. There's no certain speed anyone needs to travel as they traverse the terrain of their life. To each his own.
Now imagine a world where everyone is kind and if you need a hand, there are many to choose from. If someone is being dangerous, heaven forbid - they are assisted toward that which they need - so they can be stable. WE provide loving healing and non-judgement. That's usually what it takes to bring someone back into balance.
Please don't give up hope for having peace in the Earthly realm. It is much easier to be peaceful than to win a war, beause there is no such thing as a war that is won. In wars, both sides lose, and therefore nobody can win.
When everyone respects all life, there are no sides and there is no war. Peace is the only way to win. Everyone survives and nobody has to be a killer.
Mme. GOSSIP
Last Saturnday, Miss Molly McFanny was seen with Tiger Muffet and just days earlier was carorting about with Jonny Deep near the Lover's Bluff. Thimble Stillskein said she noticed McFanny and Deep were were very close and in fact it looked like they were rubbing wings. Thimble said they stepped away from each other just as she flew by and waved.
Miss Fatty Bombalatty has joined the fly lite club and she's lost a whopping .25 ounces since the last full moon. She's so light now in fact, that she hopes to join the mile high club in Spring so she can soar with the eagles instead of flapping around with the turkeys. Fatty wasn't given her name because she's a porker. She was named after her mother's favorite beer, brewed by Furthermore.
After years of being called fatty, Fatty started to believe she was fat and in no time, her name began to fit her...unlike her clothes, which don't. Now there's talk of her changing her name to Tiny Featherweight, just to help keep up her trim new look.
Miss Buttercup Northwinds and Johnny Rottenapple were seen sitting in a tree, K-I S=S=I=N=G! First came love and there's talk of marriage, so come Spring, there might be a little Rottenapple in the baby carriage.
FAERIE'S ALMANAC:
Snow flies are invading the upper Midwest and it looks like they are going to be thick until Spring. Snow flies aren't unusual this time of year, but this winter they are predicted to reproduce like bunnies and could accumulate in giant piles deep enough to bury a human, especially if one who's lying down.
WANTED, LOST AND FOUND AND WHAT HAVE YOUs:
I seem to have lost my mind somewhere in the Black Forest. If anyone comes across it, please let me know. I would tell you what it looks like, but I just recently changed it. I change my mind often, so I'm not really sure how I'll identify it when it's found. I guess if it's not mine, whoever lost it won't mind because you can't mind without a mind. Come to think of it, I don't care if it's found. Now, what was I taking about? reply to...?
Lost in the Wilderness
For SALE. One treehole, 12 feet up. Oak siding, newly re-padded bed with 100% kindly derived goose down. Must move immediately. You don't mind a squirrel room-mate, do you? reply to 1224A
Looking for a ride to Lost Vegas, Earth-side. I would fly there myself but I don't know where it is. I also have a rotator wing injury that flares up over long flights. reply to 1225A
If you like peanut enchiladas, taking flight in the rain , if you're not into soda, but are into champagne. If you like waking up at midnight, come with me and escape. I'm the faerie you're lookin' for. And my references are great! reply to 1226A
Yes, I like peanut enchilladas, taking flight in the rain. And I'm not into soda cause I'm drunk on champagne. I like waking up at Midnight for a pee and a snack. I don't need your references, just write me back. replied to 1226A
I SAW YOU at the magik show last night. You have great legs but I didn't get to see your face. You were being sawed in half. I was the one who got caught trying to sneak back-stage. reply to 1227A
WANTED: Elves or faeries or anybody else to work full time from now until December 25th on the human calendar. You will be making toys for kids. Electronic experience is a must, as most kids don't like regular toys any more. Payment will be made in trade, as we really don't have the budget to pay our help. All the toys are to be given away to good human boys and girls, so it's for a good cause. You will be working 25 hours a day. respond to 1228santa
Need a good home: Two homeless faeries, a boy and a girl were displaced when they were infants during the hurricaine Katrina storm several years ago. They managed to survive the storms, but lost their parents and human sponsors. They would like to be adopted by a human girl who will take good care of them. Their names are Twistle and Cherry. respond to 1229A
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