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Grumpy's Dragons and the Fairy Mirrors My late husband was Irish and we talked about fairies, dragons and gnomes quite often. He talked about the horrors of Catholic School and the abusive nun Sister Natalie. He talked about being forced go church by his mother. He was turned off by all forms of organized religion. I started participating in NA Sweat Lodge ceremonies and he suddenly became very interested. He wouldn't go into the lodge itself but he liked assisting the firekeeper. This lead to the exploration of early European spiritual beliefs including the Irish inclination toward fairies, gnomes, and dragons. We relocated from California to West Virginia in 1999. I immediately made fairy mirrors and tied them onto the maple tree in our front yard. Grumpy lost his cigarette lighter, blamed the fairies, and tore down the fairy mirrors. I quietly put them them back up. It was good for a laugh. Grumpy took a plane back to California for a wedding. He picked up a ceramic dragon and placed it in a pet carrier for the return trip. When asked what was in the carrier, he told them that it was his pet dragon. He was advised that animals were not allowed on the plane. After carefully inspecting the contents of the pet carrier, they made an exception for the dragon now resides in West Virginia.  Abracadabra  |
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It's all in good fun. This was very typical of Grumpy's Irish humor. Abracadabra
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That is a pretty neat looking dragon! I laughed at Grumpy bringing it home on the plane in a pet carrier. I bet they laughed..... or thought he was nuts. Be a prism, spreading God's light and love, not a mirror reflecting the world's hatred.
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Great looking dragon. Grumpy must have been a fun person, when he wasn't grumpy of course, but then that was the Irish in him. lol  .What part of Ireland did he hail from ?
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