Fairy Stool

"I remember I used to half believe

and wholly play

with fairies

when I was a child.

What heaven can be more real

than to retain the spirit-world of childhood,

tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense."
Beatrix Potter

Downhill Can Be Fun Too

all ignorance toboggans into know
and trudges up to ignorance again:
but winter's not forever,even snow
melts;and if spring should spoil the game,what then?

(an excerpt from "all ignorance tobbaggans into know" by ee cummings)

The saying is "Ignorance is bliss,"

but that sort of bliss is short lived.

A fool smiles but knows nothing,

a sweet child covered in snow and sweat.

I'd rather trudge uphill to the sun and be burnt in that light

than face another childhood of thrill seeking.