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Fantasy Faire 2024: Letting Go

It's too easy to hold on too long --
to ache for the magic that we knew
to wander the empty lands unsatisfied
and not knowing what's missing.

But we do know.
The spirit has taken wing.
It has become memory, it has become story --
it has become more than it was
it has become a part of all of us.

Bear with me for a little sentimentalism.

After the Faire closes each year, the Fairegrounds remain for another day or two: the merchants clean up things that must not be lost. The members of the Faire backstage group -- Builders and Creators, DJs and Performers, Roleplayers, and Chroniclers, Ministers and Sponsors, the many people who worked so long to bring the Faire to life each year -- all these have an extra day or two to wander the Fairegrounds.

As a Chronicler, I take great joy in sharing the Faire with you each year: I look forward to the Faire with eager excitement, and live every moment I can in her many regions.

And every year, I wander over the Fairegrounds after the Faire has closed, wanting that one more moment.

Aeon's pose is My Beautiful Star 2 by Pink Moon

But it's not the same. There may be one or two or three people in a region, rarely more. The chatter in the Backstage group is quieted. I like to think that perhaps I'm not alone in feeling that it's time to let go.

The spirit has flown, taken wing in memory, in the smiles that we will share, in the stories that we will tell. Do you remember when?

Faire is always a magical experience. Hold that feeling -- the feeling of 'ohana, family, the feeling of community, the feeling of working together to make life better even while we are entertained, even while we shop. Hold that all year long.

And next year, I'll meet you again at the Faire.

Mahalo nui loa, thank you so very much. Mālama pono, take good care of yourselves, of each other.

Aeon's pose is My Beautiful Star 4 by Pink Moon

Pictures were t a ken in Samsara at Fantasy Faire 2024

The sim windlight was used.

I am wearing:

•CKit Falconry -- Cupkake & Trouble Mini Black Horned Owls
•K9nnor -- Nature's Mask
•K9nnor -- Faeschach tattoo
•K9nnor -- Soft Spots tattoo
•Aii & Ego -- Fairy Wings
•Aii & Ego -- Forest Nymph (Full Body/Ear Leaves/ Head Leaves)
•Scarlet Fae -- Braided Filigree Leather Top
•Scarlet Fae -- Elven Leather Skirt
•Bliensen + MaiTai -- Mirkwood Mask
•[Gauze & Trap] -- Cernunnos Horns
•[Harshlands] -- FF Decade Necklace (Basalt)
•Fallen Gods -- Druid Blackwood skin
•Fallen Gods -- Fleurs tattoo
•Fallen Gods -- Fleurs face tattoo
•Sassy AF -- SBPC Sibylline Arm and leg vines (store no longer available)
•Raven Bell -- Willow Hair + Branches
•Mayfly -- Luminous Twilight Forest eyes
•.:Soul:. -- High Elf Uni Ears [v2]
•[GA.EG] -- Barbara mesh face
•[GA.EG] -- Glamour Lashes
•Maitreya -- Lara Petite mesh body, hands and feet

Taken on: May 8, 2024

Sets appears in: • Fantasy Faire 2024

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