Holy Clay Play

“Hey, you get to go out into an art show with a clay body!”

“I know! I’m pq9-491-9 aak roa  so thrilled!”

“And I get to, too” announces green thing faerie as he struts about the computer desk.

“And you’ll be in a book too…  wow.  And here we’ve been giving her such a bad time for not getting us out there.”

“.. but it’s not the novel. It still isn’t finished.”

“ya,”  snickers a whole horde of faeries, “we still get to nag her.”

Author Jilly Beneanski is here. Look!!!

Look look!  Jilly Beneanski, Author of The Awe-manac: a Daily Dose of Wonder is here.  Oh how over the top are we!!  AND she answered our questions!!  AND you can win a copy of the brilliant AWE-Manac.  There will be a draw for the winner from those who leave a comment!   Read on….

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Hi Author Jilly Beneanski!  We don’t understand names the way mortals do, but our potter told us your name so we could be polite.

 

I appreciate that but please don’t be polite on my account. Politeness can cause constipation.

 

We are so glad you came to visit us!  So, what’s exciting in your realm these days?

 

The biggest excitement is that I got a new door today. I complained about my neighbor talking so loud that I could hear her over American Idol (go Adam Lambert) and my landlord sent the maintenance fairies to put in a thicker door. I wonder what this means on the metaphysical side of things. Any ideas?                   (hmm, when you grow up you want to be a singer on national tv? I know you expected more but the mention of Adam Lambert.. well, .. you know… we’d like to turn him into a faerie!) (Potter’s note: Jill, tell me they didn’t really just say that???)

 

 

Do you believe in faeries? 

(“Isn’t that a bit silly to ask?” says one faerie to another, “she’s here, isn’t she?” 
“And,” chirps in another, “she did swat at me when I whispered in her ear the other day.”  
“Ya but, maybe she thought you were a mosquito.”  
“She might think we are just imagination.” 
“okay, let’s stick with the question.”)

 

Author Jilly, do you believe in faeries?

 

Excuse me!! If you would be silent for a minute I’ll answer. Just kidding. You don’t need to be silent. Here in America we believe in fairies.  For some reason when you cross the Canadian border you hand over your i for an e. Does that stand for “eh”?

 

I do believe in faeries. The Modern Day Muses go on vacations with them annually to Cabo. They get along quite swimmingly and also quite volleybally and once quite croquetly.

 

 Potter loves the Awe-manac.. we’re glad you know that random acts of creativity help keep the creative soul happy and healthy.  We are happy to have your help… it’s not always easy working with that potter/writer of ours to get ourselves ‘out there’.   We have noticed when she spends a few minutes with your book her energy lifts.  Then we grab her by the straps of her bra (or her T-shirt if the other is missing) and guide her back to our projects.  She goes quite willingly then.   Do you ever notice your bra straps being pulled?  Do your muses do that, too?

 

 

Wow, I’m going to start wearing a bra,(just kidding again).. But my muses pull my hair and it hurts probably more than a bra strap. They also have been known to open a drawer on my way to checking my email for the 4,665,756,434,003 time a day so I can’t get through to the computer, they’ve woven my TV cable into a lanyard so I can’t get reception, and once they even made me do a u-turn on my way to my boyfriend’s house because a creative idea had so much pull that I had to go back home and work on it.

 

In our home realms, all is magical and we can create by thought, and teleport and such.  You seem pretty magical yourself.. can you do those things? Hey, can you fly?

 

 

 No. But I think your potter can.

 

 

There’s a quote potter loves:  “Reality is only for those lacking imagination.”  She used to have it posted in her outhouse – very honouring because people would sit and read it.   If you’d been sitting in the outhouse, what would you think about that quote?  And do you think imagination is real?

 

 

I totally agree with that quote. I think that that outhouse she sits in is a very “in” house. I think the imagination is underused, underestimated, and underwear. … I mean under worn… oh, I’m not sure what that last thing means. I think we can dig out our imagination brush it off and make it our medicine during this time when we need to redefine our reality with some magic from our imagination. Creative imagination is free, liberating and incredibly fulfilling. 

We are so qp098-) i lkda ;        happy to have you here. .aoieq-09(*( l k  that we are dancing on the keys!   Ero;lkdf a ee-  Do you dance on the keys?

  

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OH oh oh happy dandelions! … we even get to have a page of the Awe-Manac here! We name the day Jillyfull Day!

 

 Ps.  (“HEY!” yells Janet, “Is it your picking at my bra straps that makes me so annoyed by bras?  Sheesh.”)

Pps.  ‘Author’’s more recognized name is Jill Badonsky.. and we are all very honoured she has stopped by on her book blog tour!  Thank you ever soooo much!

ppps. (“Potter, is that many p’s the opposite of that constipation thing?  The only thing we know about that is when you..”  “STOP” says potter in a way they have never heard, so they stop.  Then potter got in a huff and went back to the clay and didn’t finish the intended ppps.  “Hmm,” says the faeries, “we’ll have to do that more often, whatever it is that we did.”)

 

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The computer

Dear Faeries,

I keep getting drawn to the computer. It’s like I’m looking for something, but I don’t exactly find ‘what I’m looking for’ on the computer.  Is there like a magnet in the computer that makes me stop what I think I want to be doing and sit at the dumb computer?

Well, I guess I found you here.  Can you help me?

Sincerely, Stuck at the computer girl.

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Dear Girl,

You found us!  Not that you needed to look here.  Look over your shoulder. Listen to little thoughts in your head that make you smile.  Dance and let your imagination picture us.  It’ll be right, you know. Imaginations are really really smart that way.  Maybe you are looking for your imagination on the computer? 

‘Oh! Wait! I Know!’ shouts out a faerie ‘ For a little tiny step away from the computer,  go do something silly.  Scribble.  Put maple syrup on your toast and peanut butter. Do something you currently think is completely unproductive.   There you’ll find us.  Hiding, playing, and helping you to discover that those unproductive things are leading you to what you are looking for.’

{“Hey, faerie-with-the-aha-moment-to-help-girl, where’d you come from?” ask the other faeries quizzically.  But faerie-w-t-a-m-t-h-g, doesn’t answer.  Just giggles.}

Sometimes I worry I’ll catch her mortal thinking

“Sometimes I worry that I’ll catch her mortal thinking.”

“I know.  It almost starts to make sense when she’s pouty cuz she has the ‘flu’.. whatever that is.  But I know her body energy isn’t very happy.”

“And she caught it from somewhere.  Can we catch her mortal  thinking, do you think?”

“We already do. When she dances, we dance.  When she sings, we sing.”

“Oh!  Yes, we do!   That’s a good thing then!

But, umm,  can we catch her flu?”

Bruno Torf’s Art and Sculpture Gardens

Ohh, faeries and I are saddened by the devastation in Australia and are sending faerie good loving energy that way.

Bruno Torf’s Art and Sculpture Garden was caught in the fires.  At first we heard it was completely gone, but his website says that it’s not all gone and they will be rebuilding.   It is a brilliant tribute to mystical, magical, art, and nature.  

Have a look!  http://www.brunosart.com/tour.htm

And yes, faeries, I know you are going to go visit there…  See you soon!

Jill is coming to play!

“Jill is coming, Jill is coming!” cries out a faeriesa’epo]-0]-]ald c while dancing on the keys.

Along comes leprechaun, who is no longer sleeping in the laundry basket after his recent gallavanting. He announces sagely,

“Of course she is!  Anyone that magical and who can write about mortals the way she does would end up here!”

“I wonder if she would like some faerie coaching?” faerie in the sugarbowl ponders.

“I wonder if she is a faerie “  wonders one who is doing things we don’t announce publicly

Whoosh.  Gone.  Going to Jill’s home I suspect.  Hope they are back for the March 5th Blog tour!!!  They love giving away prizes!

When New Year’s Resolutions don’t work…

Faeries are okay with me (potter aka Janet) sharing this post from my other blog.  They are okay with this because they have the same philosophy as me regarding mortals accessing their passion and gifts.  They just don’t quite get why that is so hard for mortals, but they think I do have a clue about this.  And they really believe in revelling.  (Of course they do.)  Here’s the post:

Sharing how HAPPY I am that my most recent work(play!)book is doing the job it set out to do!  My passion and purpose in life includes helping others to find their best way to live life intentionally, purposefully, passionately, and yes, magically.  I know from my own life experience, as well as through being a coach, that the best way to ‘get there’ is to find the answers your way.  We are all so unique – our life experiences, the way we think, our perspectives.  A good book can inspire us, but often only briefly.  Discovering your answers, not mine.. not someone elses, is life changing.

The workbooks I have online are about finding your answers.  Honestly, the best way to discover these  is through individual coaching, ( a coach can watch for that sparkle in your eyes!) but when personal coaching is not currently an option for you.. these workbooks help. A lot.  Please check out the testimonials below.  And please have a look at the workbooks online.  If each of us took steps to live our life passion and purpose… well, can you imagine the new levels of wondrous our world could be?

 

Testimonials for “Happy Revelly After” 

“You Know you are an absolutely amazing women. Such simple thoughts that all of us look past. I had so much fun reading and doing your book its like a profound self discovery. Sometimes we get so caught up in “life” we forget about the more important things in Life and that is ourselves and what we are capable of. You have a way of writing things that make it fun and make it fun to reach in and rediscover our inner thoughts and emotions. Thank you for sending me your book and in a few months from now it will be a good one to pick up again as a reminder of what MY life is really about. Thank you lots of hugs to you. I cant wait for more books to come out I WILL be on the list of buying all of them. You going to make a boxed set???? Let me know.”

Nicole Kriwtschenko Victoria BC

 

“Wow.  All I can say is wow.
…as I read through the book, I did become aware of my way of thinking.  People do tend to look at resolutions as a set-up for a disaster.  I made one to give up junk food and I already fell off that wagon.  As I kept reading, you really stuck a chord within me and I began to cry.  You write with a lot of wit and humor and I did chuckle a few times but I began to have revelations about my own life…..

…I’m going to share your book with my husband and my mother-in-law and maybe, 4 or 5,000 other people who need a revelation.  Seriously, you opened my eyes to a lot of things I have been struggling with.  It’s not a “new year” thing.  It’s a “new me” thing.  I get to learn to focus on the good stuff I do and on the good person I am.   And I think that’s why this has really hit me so hard because I have been struggling with so much stuff lately.
I truly believe God sends angels at certain times in our lives and you came just at the right moment in mine.  I really enjoyed reading through the book and I believe it is a tool I will refer to from now on.  You can keep the ants though…lol.  I also felt the material was very readable and self-explanatory.  I think so many people will benefit from your wisdom.
Thank you again.  You really are a dynamite person”
Deb Berna, USA

 Of course, readers, you do know, don’t you.. I simply provide the tool. These women are the amazing ones who gave themselves permission to work through the book, watch for the sparkle in their own eyes, and revel in their discoveries.  Thank you Nicole and Deb for sharing!

 

To learn more www.musingsandmud.com/workbooks.html

 

How do you catch a real faerie?

Faeries, I was just reading the blog stats and I discovered that the #1 way that people find this blog, is by googling “How do you catch a real fairy?”   I better finish the novel, huh?

Acting like perfectly human beings, because they do that for me sometimes, the faeries answer, “well, duh, ya.”

do you think

do you think she’ll get to our workbook next? the faerie way? she just published Happy Revelly Afte… surely, we are next. people want the magic

Mortal Counting

“Faeries? Faeries, where are you??” whispers potter anxiously when she stopped by and realized the faeries haven’t had much to say here.

Whoosh…plop.  On the desk.  With a calculator of sorts.   Well, more like an abacus.  A  bit hard to describe.

“We’re doing a count of mortals who believe and mortals who wish they believed during Christmas!” reports faerie who plopped on the desk. “Gotta fly… it’s looking good. That Tinkerbell movie helped some. Do you realize,” he calls out as he whooshes towards the window, “the magical thoughts people have when they watch something like that? They may not entirely believe but they wish they did.”

And one last blurt out before he’s gone, “will you finish the book? Maybe it could be made into a movie and people will realize there is so much more from the Land of Fae than Tinkerbells and Garden Faeries!”

I’m starting a writer’s group for those wanting to finish their books. I’m participating.