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ArtistRichly textured artistic watercolour, oil pastel, ink, salt infuse painting of Watercolor painting of fairies with two sets of wings on their back [two large at top, two small at bottom] swinging upon dewdrop covered webs hanging from various sized pinpoints of light in a dark sky, hanging and swinging from the tip of a sliver of a crescent moon, pinpoints of glitter lights, hills, valleys, forests, beauty, intrigue, 1800s,Gustave Jean Jacquet, Edward Robert Hughes, Vasily Toprinin, Alexei Alexeievich Harlamov, Ramon Casas, Arthur Rackham, Monet
Poem by
Rosemary Fyleman
(from Fairies and Chimneys)
I stood against the window
And looked between the bars,
And there were strings of fairies
Hanging from the stars;
Everywhere and everywhere
In shining, swinging chains;
The air was full of shimmering,
Like sunlight when it rains.
They kept on swinging, swinging,
They flung themselves so high
They caught upon the pointed moon
And hung across the sky.
And when I woke next morning,
There still were crowds and crowds
In beautiful bright bunches
All sleeping on the clouds.
FAERIES AND MUSHROOMS
WHAT’S THE CONNECTION?
WELL, WHEN THE POEM MENTIONS…
…strings of fairies hanging from the stars…
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THIS REMINDS ME OF…
the cobweb-like
cellular networks
of mycelium.
It grows in the ground
beneath our feet
(when the eco-system
has not been disturbed)
And in the FORESTS
around us.
1 SQUARE INCH = approx 8 MILES
of MYCELIUM
Meanwhile, just so you know, all of the fairy poems
shared were gathered (some written by me) a few years prior
to discovering Paul Stamets and his mushroom work. At the time
I was trying to connect, especially children, to nature with
a bit of fun by incorporating fairies, along with nature activities.
Then, when I discovered Paul Stamets and his work with mushrooms,
I thought in a way, I had discovered a holy grail to many of our environmental
problems, which has always been a core interest of mine.
This influence from Paul Stamets began around 2010 to the present.
However, because of one interview which I thought was not
in his usual style of being straight upfront, in fact, appeared to be
over-acting, I began to question the ground upon which he stood.
The following link I think gives a fair assessment and balance to all
in his regard, so perhaps, in the end, we may not throw out the baby
with the bathwater.
https://seismicspore.com/paul-stamets-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/
