Quigley

All these years, 50 plus, I've remembered and now I even tell others of the little men who would sing down our hallway to my room, lift me onto a long plank and carry me away. I've been wondering why I can remember that but not where they took me!

Quigley

Now after ten years or more of drawing Puckwatchies (elves, gnomes and fairies) ~   they come through mostly on sad nights when I can't sleep...hello! I lay on my side one eye open sketching in pencil  (5.9.2014 3 AM)  I had tried 2 meditation tapes  ~~ I didn't want to draw! I wanted to sleep! Too bad. A few pencil scratchings... I feel my despair distracted.  I start to talk to him and then listen ~ I let his eyes speak and comfort me. I keep drawing and then he makes me giggle and laugh.

Do I really need to remember where we went, what the landscape was like? That giggle and laughter, a non-fattening nectar,  the sensation craved by great adventurers and gamblers. I gamble it all against what the world says is valuable: money, trips, stuff, prestige...even children, pets. family ~ for that giggle of internal peace and joy.

My friend C.A. met Quigley (his name came the same night he appeared) on 5/10. I told her most of my pucks come when I'm in the dark despair of a sleepless night and now I'm shocked to be able to go from such a depth of despair to an honest-to-goodness feeling of joy, kindred to the best childhood Christmas morning you/I ever had.  C.A. said, "Quigley (see his askewed eyes)  sees the upside and the downside. It doesn't bother him a bit. He finds it kind of amusing. Shrinks and shrugs, 'Oh, well.' "

Quigley told me where they took me 50 years ago~  to the same place they take me to now ~ to a safe place ~ to an INNER space ~  The heart space of Love and Joy.

Mom says I was a weird kid, that I begged for my bedroom door to be closed ~ but that once in a while I'd say, "Leave my door open a crack." They respect boundaries and come only when invited.  I wonder if they come and visit you too?

Thank you, Fairy Friends, who I now call my Puckwatchies.

--- Lorraine P. Kreimeyer  copyright 2014