“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”

Albert Einstein

Would you believe that ‘once upon a time’ may not be so long ago? We live in a five-sense world, and sometimes things happen that just don’t quite fit within our seeing, smelling, hearing, touching and tasting. Yes, we often had/have a sense that there were faeries about. The thing is we are logical people, well educated and considered quite sensible; and still, things just seem to happen around our home. For example, things seem to disappear, then rea-appear sometime later. One of our first clear instances happened with a favorite garden shears. I brought in from the garden and before I got it back into the closet it disappeared. We looked everywhere; it was nowhere to be found. About a week later it turned up in plain sight on the counter. (There are only two of us living here and neither put it there.)

A more recent tale: our faeries love sparkly things. We have learned to careful with our diamond rings. Several years ago the whole crown broke off a diamond ring so we are carefull with them. We began to leave our rings safe on the jewelry chest while out gardening. Then, a ring disappeared from this safe and secure spot, obviously not so safe and secure. Fairly recently, we were putting in a new flower bed and there it was –  sticking up from a clump of dirt, just like a jeweler’s box, was the ’lost’ diamond ring.    

Is all of life logical and scientific with precise cause and effect or maybe there is just a bit of magic going on. We cannot see a link to cause and effect, nor can we see these marvelous creatures. Maybe sometimes we just need to expand our  minds and our expectations beyond the five senses, science and logic. What do you think?