Butterfly Dreams
I still remember the day when a hungry caterpillar inched its way across the top of my Creation Book. It was late summer. My sister Poppy and I were sitting in the shade along the banks of a lazy flowing stream in the Wanderlore Grove—our typical summer haunt. Damselflies darted about, doing their dark hunting […]
Soul Surfing
You’ve probably noticed by now that I love to create butterflies. I could say that butterflies just fascinate me—they do—but they also represent something more. Butterflies not only represent transformation, which, being a magician, is a process I’m always keen to exploit; they also represent the soul, which, being a bit of an explorer, makes […]
Star-Spangled Birthday
Hello July, and Happy Birthday to all you July Babies! The great thing about July birthdays is that you don’t have a lot of other major holidays to steal the limelight from your special day. The bad thing about having a July birthday is that a lot of people are on vacation which means you […]
Birthday Butterflies
Celebrations and me have an awkward relationship. Thanksgiving, Winter Wish, Shamrock Day, I can get into. Mostly because the centerpiece of said celebration isn’t me. But, birthdays are another story all together. Let’s just say that I get butterflies whenever I think about my birthday approaching. I don’t like being the center of attention. I […]
Migration
Butterflies don’t always know where they will go or how they will get there Sometimes the wind is against them Sometimes they have to take shelter against a storm Sometimes […]
Get Happy
Happiness is like an elusive butterfly. It is dreamt about, pursued, but rarely captured. Perhaps this is because, too often, people think of happiness as a possession—a thing to own. They think if they have the right stuff, take the right trips, have the right adventures that their life will be transformed into an existence […]
