There was a beautiful fairy house. The children had worked on it together for a number of days. They were making it for a special person, their grandmother. She of warm hugs, fun stories, and lots of energy. She of the kind face and heart.

The children gathered and worked and decorated, but all the time although they thought they were making a normal fairy house, just a fun and nice decoration, they did not realize that people are made of stardust. That when you work together, and love together, that sometimes in the making of things, particularly presents for someone you love, that sometimes, some of your stardust rubs off on the thing you make. Now, if only one or two people work together, this is not a problem, but when you have five or six or more, then that stardust gathers. It gathers and sometimes ends up inside the thing you are making.

So it was that that fairy house was embedded with stardust, and not just any old stardust. This was some of the rarest and most powerful stardust, that comes from the oldest stars, the ones that are from the love of grandchildren and grandparents. Each child, though they did not know it, left some of that stardust in the fairy house. If they had tasted a little of that fairy dust, they would have recognized it, because it tastes a bit like warm cookies on a cold winter night and a blanket and a good book, just exciting enough but not to scary, and if it is just the right kind, like a dog’s kiss just in the middle of the one scary part in that book.

Now that, all by itself, a little stardust is not usually a problem. A little stardust is a good thing. But at this time, Titania, the queen of fairy was looking for a new home. She and Oberon, the King of fairy, had decided their old fairy house was too small, and they were on the hunt for a new one. In the woods where they were living, they sensed a powerful magic made of stardust and love very far away. So they quickly made a fairy circle, and found that house. Shrinking themselves, because the King and Queen of fairy are larger than regular fairies, they found they loved it. So before the moon set, they captured some moon beams and hooked that fairy house up to a passing star and spirited it away to Fairy.

They are living in it now, and when they go to sleep feeling a little bit of a cuddle, a good book and a dog kiss.

So when next they design a fairy house, be careful to just let a little stardust fall upon it, because otherwise some other fairy may decide to spirit it away.

© words by Dan DeMarle 8/23/2020