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Summary: A personal story about the book _Faeries_
Review: When I turned 40 last year, I asked my friends and family not to give me gifts. My friend Martha gave me a gift anyway, the book _Faeries: Visions, Voices & Pretty Dresses_. I had recently told her that I had started to identify as a faerie, and she had seen this new photo book in a bookstore. If you had a chance to see it, you would understand why she had to pick it up. It's a beautiful book, starting with the cover photo of two faeries holding hands in a larger circle of faeries, and continuing throughout. I was totally enchanted with the book, spent all my free time for a couple of weeks looking at the photos and reading the interviews. I had that experience of finding my lost tribe. In the year and a half since then I've met a lot of the faeries pictured in the book. I've visited the wolf creek faerie sanctuary in Oregon twice. This summer I might go to Kawashaway with my friend Heron (check out p. 70 -- I like your look better with short hair, honey!). When I tell people I'm a faerie and they ask me what that means, I show them this book. They get it in a way I could never convey in my words alone. If you're interested in beautiful documentary photography, life stories and personal philosophies, the nuts and bolts of creating and nurturing an alternative community, and expanding your vision of what it means to be human on this planet at this point in history, I would encourage you to get this book. If you're a faerie I would insist, honey! I heard recently that Keri Pickett has been working on a book about faeries in the northwest US. I can hardly wait!
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