The Faerie Festival

     

   "It's finally here", Today is the day  , My Lady Rebecca Fire Elf Shimmer shouted out loud to nobody in particular. She had been waiting forever for this day to arrive. The day for her Faerie Festival was finally here. Father sun was barely peeking above the horizon, and the pallet in the sky was  a colorful, purple, and red with a little magenta splashing around the edges of the fluffy white clouds in the crystal blue sky.

     My Lady Rebecca is a very magical being. She might be in her sixties, but nobody really knows for sure.  She's  a little chubby ,and her hair is shoulder length, streaked with silver white , there is  a touch  of teal and purple just to frame her face.  Soft curls cuddle her baby faced features.  If you look real close you can even see the sparkle of some faeries in her hair. She still looks like the little girl in the picture she has of herself, and her father sitting on top of the bookcase in her living room.

      My Lady  is one of the few characters  that looks like she is getting younger instead of older, and her steel blue eyes twinkle like crystals as she stands quietly in front of her picture window to greet her day.  

     Focusing  her eyes intently on the front yard, and her forest  she noticed something completely unexpected.  To her amazement something wonderful had happened outside last night. She had been fretting for weeks about how she was going  to get her property ready in time for her Faerie Festival today.

     As she stood there she began to  smile, because in the distance she could hear a faint sound of a  few little snickers, and a chuckle or two, and she  knew instantly that it was her Faeries, Divas, and Brownies. They, along with her animal friends had been working all night pitching the colorful tents ,and string the sparkling lights so that all the venders had to do was to arrive with their wares.  She just smiled ,and shook her head in amazement.  Now that the hard part was finished she could relax a little.

     My Lady needed to finish her morning ritual, and get herself, and her piggy's Pepper, and Willow White Feather ready for the day's festivities.  Her festival is going to be the first Faerie Festival ever held in this area. What an exciting thought that was.

There was going to be one tent for  nothing but crystals that sparkled like ice in the sunshine. Another tent would have only Pendulums, and dowsing rods. The rainbow colored tent was to be her tent where she intended to show the towns people just how wonderful  and talented  her Potbellied pigs were.  There was a blue tent for magic. The red one for Tarot readings. The yellow one was for Reiki, and other healing modalities. One was for herbs, spices, and essential oils imported from the four comers of the Universe.  Everything  that was going to be offered here today was pertaining to Mother Earth Energy.

     Realizing how late it was getting  My Lady said to Willow and Pepper, " If nothing else girls the village people will defiantly learn something special today that they never knew before".

     After finishing  her breakfast of sprouts, and sparkling water she turned to Little Willow ,and said," Willow it is time to get your bath dear". Willow gave a soft grunt of protest, as she turned to scamper away My Lady bent down in a flash, snatch her up ,and  tucked her close so she could not escape. While the pig squealed in protest off to the bath they went , as  Pepper followed .   With their baths done and their costumes on and their faerie wings attached ,one more job was done.

       It was getting late, and My Lady was in a hurry to get outside to examine the festival grounds for herself. Everything seemed to be in perfect order according to plan. There were many bright colored tents lining the driveway all the way to her cottage door. She glanced at her plans again to make sure that she had placed every tinker, craftier, and artisan just right. Willow was at her side as usual.

     My Lady took out her  list and tuned  to Little Willow as she recited all the different  characters that were to arrive there very soon.
     "Willow", she said", You, and Pepper, and I will be in the rainbow tent at the beginning of the lane" . "That is where you will perform all of your tricks so everyone can see how special, and smart pigs really are dear. " Are you ready"? "Yes I am.", grunted Little Willow as her white tipped tail wagged feverishly to signify her joy.

     My lady had one more thing that needed to be checked. The sound system was the last thing on her list.  After all what is a Faerie Festival without music.  
      Just at that moment she spied her friend  Pon her resident black bear. Pon had been  wondering around from tent to tent checking trash barrels just in case one of the elves might have left a little smidgen of food behind. As Pon rambled from one barrel to the other you could tell she was mentally  keeping track of where they all were  located.  She knew that after the festivities, when everyone was gone ,she could return, and raid the cans when they were full of goodies.

     Things here seemed  in order, so My lady called to Willow,  "Come, Willow I need to get ready myself now dear.  I have to get this blasted crystal top on so I can be ready to greet my guests in one hour"." Hurry now you little scamp". Willow gave a grunt as she followed her  Mom to the cottage so she could take a short nap before her big debut.

This will be the first time the village folks had been to My Lady Rebecca's. They had no idea what to expect. 
     Walking up the lane to the cottage with Little Willow by her side . She thought to herself, Today is going to be the very best day ever, I intend ,and so it is..

The Missing Crystal Skull

The Missing Crystal Skull

  

       My day started rather uneventfully as I sat alone on my back deck and sipped the hot cup of tea I was holding so carefully in my hands. Today will be another beautiful day just like yesterday. It was still very early, and the rising sun was warming everything around me. I didn't have a lot of time to spend looking at the colorful sunrise, because I needed to prepare for an appointment with a new client at 11 o'clock this morning.

     Just as I was finishing my tea the phone started to ring. Before I answered the call I took a quick glance at the number on the caller ID. It was a long-distance number. Who in the world could possibly be calling me from out of state at this early hour? I picked up the phone and on the other end of the line was my very dear friend Donna from Washington State. She was calling to tell me about a problem she was having with one of her crystal skulls. Before I was able to ask what the problem was, she began to ramble on about her favorite crystal skull, Lister.

     Crystal skulls have always played a very important part in Mayan history and have been kept as sacred entities by different indigenous cultures all over the world. They were and still are used today as tools for healing and storing important information. They have also been known to convey messages to their care givers by telepathy. Ancient crystal skulls like the Mitchell- Hedges Skull of Love that was featured in the Indiana Jones movie, The Kingdom of The Crystal Skulls, have been around for many thousands of years. This skull has been taken all over the world so people can see it and take their own skulls to be placed in its presence and be downloaded with information that has been stored in this particular skull many decades ago. It is only recently that the contemporary crystal skulls of today have been so popular for people like Donna and I to keep as a spiritual talisman in our homes. It is believed that ancient information can be downloaded into any crystal skull that happens to be in its presence.

     A few years ago I sent my little tree agate skull, Tree Herder, to be placed in a room with this particular skull so he could pick up information to be brought back home to be shared with the rest of my skull family.

     You see the amazing gift these very old Crystal skulls bring to the world is the gift of ancient knowledge.

      It is believed by our crystal skull community that important ancient knowledge has been stored for eons in the original 13 ancient Crystal skulls. At this time only a few of these original skulls have been located. These particular skulls are believed to have come from the missing continents of Atlantis and Lemuria.

     Crystal skulls have been used in rituals by indigenous tribes all over the world for thousands of year. It is claimed by the experts that if the contemporary skulls, most of us have today ,are placed near an ancient Crystal skull it will transfer information from skull to skull. It is also said that the sacred information stored in the ancient skulls is information that will not be released to us until the rest of the remaining 13 Crystal skulls are finally located and are reunited and placed in a circle of life with the 13th skull being placed directly in the center of the circle. Then and only then will this information be released to humanity to help save Mother Earth. This information was put into the ancient crystal skulls for the end times by the Atlantean civilization before the fall of Atlantis.

     "Becky," Donna said, "Lister is trying to tell me something very important and I  can't seem to understand what it is." Donna wanted to know if 1 could help her find out what Lister was trying to tell her. " Absolutely I replied. I  will have some extra time this afternoon after my appointment. "I will try to connect with him then.

     After she told me a few more details and we said goodbye. I finished getting ready for my morning appointment. I had to drive rather far so it would give me some time to think about what was wrong with Lister, and why Donna couldn't understand him. That really seemed strange to me, because she is a much better communicator with her crystal skulls than I am with mine.

     The appointment went great and I had the long trip home to think more about Donna, and Lister. I knew for a fact that all of these skulls contained super intelligence. Those of us who are their caretakers are just beginning to

learn how intelligent they really are. I am a caretaker of my own family of crystal skulls that I work all the time. I always use them when I give Reiki treatments and when I do my Medicine Wheel Drumming circles. I also use them in many other things that I participate in with my spiritual family. I know they are great to use during meditations also.

     It took a while, but I was finally home. As I opened my door and stepped inside I could feel that the energy field inside my home had changed drastically. It felt like there was something terribly wrong.

  It seemed to me that ever since I was attuned to the Reiki Grand Master level I have become very sensitive to subtle energy changes around me, and the change in my home's energy was overwhelmingly noticeable right now. I went into my office, and dumped my stuff from my appointment in a corner. Then I went from there to the area of my living room where I could feel the biggest difference in the energy field. This negative energy just happened to be right where my crystal skulls were kept.

     Something seemed different to me, but what was it? What could have changed so much while I was gone? After I looked around I noticed one of my skulls was missing. There was an empty space in the circle of life on the table where I kept them. I always placed them in circles, running from the largest to the smallest. There was usually a larger circle with a smaller one inside. It was in the smaller inner circle that the gap appeared. Well, I thought, that kind of narrows it down. The skull that's missing definitely has to be one of my smaller ones. I will need to check my inventory sheet because I can't remember what skull held that position in the circle.

      The circle of life had been broken. This was a bad sign. It was upsetting to know that someone had invaded my personal space.

     I began to realize that over these past five years my skull family had grown quite large. I now had 45 in my home. I had been collecting crystal skulls long before anyone even thought about making the movie Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls. Now, one is missing, but why only one? If someone had entered in my home to take a skull wouldn't they have taken them all, not just one? After all they were worth a lot of money. I had no idea how this had happened. I knew there was no way that anybody could have gotten into my home while I was gone, and there were no signs of a break-in. I also knew that I hadn't worked with any skulls in a ceremony for a while so this left out the chance that I might have used this skull and left it somewhere. I needed to find out which skull is missing. After I returned to my office for the inventory list I went over it carefully. The empty space that was in the circle could have only belonged to one of my smaller skulls, so that eliminated the large ones.

      After checking my list carefully, I discovered that the missing skull was my little Tree Herder. He was a beautiful high energy white and green tree agate that I always used in my Mother Earth Healing rituals.

    

     Now, I knew exactly why Tree Herder was the one that had been taken. He was the only skull in my collection that had been in the presence of the Mitchell Hedges Skull of Love. He was suppose to collect important information that had been given to the Skull of Love in ancient times.

      After that occurred he was sent back home to me to be placed back in the circle of love where he was kept until he disappeared this morning.

     Just then the shrill ring of the phone brought me back to reality. I saw it was Donna calling me back. I really hadn't had time to speak to Lister for her, because of all the confusion here about Tree Herder missing from his sacred spot.

      Donna was really excited. She told me she thought she knew what Lister was trying to say. She proceeded to ask me if I had taken time to speak with

him. I said," no not yet," and I began to tell her what happened here while I was gone. After explaining everything to her, I told her why I thought Tree Herder was the only skull taken. She agreed with me. "Why else would anyone come in my home and take only one of my skulls and leave all the other ones behind?" She asked. "It had to be for the ancient information he had stored in him?" Right?"

     Before I could answer Donna started to get very excited. She told me Lister was starting to glow. She asked me if I was feeling any vibrations from him. I told her that I could feel my phone starting to heat up. We were both beginning to wonder what that meant, when all of a sudden Lister started to talk. Donna and I both shut up immediately and switched our phones to speaker so we could both hear what Lister was about to tell us.

     Lister's voice was very deep and raspy. There was a hint of a Peruvian accent. He spoke very slowly and precise. He proceeded to tell Donna and me that my skull, Tree Herder and all the other crystal skulls that have ever been in the presence of the Mitchell Hedges Skull of Love had disappeared from their homes all over the planet today.

      He told us how he knew this. He said he knew because all the information about this important incident was being passed from skull to skull all over the earth just like e-mail on our computers. He then told us that nobody from this place and time had taken him.

      All these skulls were taken by a higher intelligence and tellaported to a different dimension to be used at the end of all things to help stop the escalating Earth changes before us humans and our planet is destroyed forever.

      Lister continued to explain how they were all being reprogrammed right now with vital information by The Skull of Love and the other ancient crystal skulls for this predicted moment in time. He talked about 2012 and how that time line has sped up.

      "We are out of precious time." he said, "Right now the 13 ancient skulls are being reunited along with all the other contemporary skulls on earth to combine their energy and knowledge for one purpose and one purpose only."

     Suddenly my other crystal skulls began to glow. Donna told me her skulls were glowing too. Then "Lister said," "The healing of Earth has begun."

    Looking out of my window I could see everything slowly become more vibrant and alive. Lister was right. It had begun. At this very moment we were witnessing a new day dawning on our Planet Earth.

My Wish

My  Wish 

I Wish that the love we feel in our hearts, passes to everyone everywhere from this day forward, and grows to be what it was intended to be..

 Unconditional in every way to every person, and animal ,and every thing on this planet ,and beyond.

My wish is to be able to touch the souls of every one I come in contact with to help show that there really is a New Day
Dawning all we have to do is change our attitudes, and give thanks for what we already have in our lives.

I wish that peace on earth will come to all that look for it.

I wish that we can wake up and finally see that the greatest power we have against the dark is
 LOVE

Love is really all that matters at the end of all things.

By Becky DiNolfi ©

Funny Farm's Reggie DiNolfi

  

Funny Farms Reggie DiNolfi
Born Feb 26 , 1993, Died Nov. 05, 2007

    
     My name is Rebecca DiNolfi and I was the caregiver and pet partner of one of the most famous Potbellied pigs in the U.S.
     Funny Farms Reggie,( Reggie for short) was a therapy pet partner of mine for over 14 years. She was my constant companion and Guardian Angel who was given to me by my x-husband after I had suffered 3 major heart attacks in 1991 and 1992 and was unable to function as a normal human being.
     One day when I was shopping with my X- husband I saw potbellied pigs in a pet shop and fell in love with them.
      From that encounter I determined that this animal was the pet for me. I acquired a book on potbellied pigs and read it from cover to cover more than once.
     Through this book I found out that the potbellied pig was one of the most intelligent animals on earth. They are ranked 3rd in intelligence running just behind Whales and Dolphins. They are also one of the cleanest animals and do not have any body odor or get fleas.
After making the final decision that this is the pet I wanted and my X-husband agreed that I could have one the search was on for a reputable breeder. After about a month I was able to find a breeder not far from us and the rest is history.

     I brought Reggie home when she was only 7 weeks old and from that day forward we were constant companions. I was able to go off almost all my heart medications within six weeks after she came home to me because I was able to forget about myself and concentrate on her. It was just like having a new born baby to care for only she could run like the wind and got into everything. Pigs are very curious animals as I was to find out very fast.

   After having a potbellied pig as a pet for a while I realized that they had a very human nature. They cry real tears when hurt, they pout when mad and they give you time out. They are the most human of any animal I have ever been around.
Along with Reggie's adoption I received a membership for a Potbellied pig club in our area. Reggie and I became very active with our club, The Delaware Valley Potbellied Pig Association. Our club was very active in the communities around the tri state area of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. We were always doing public appearances as well as Animal Assisted Therapy for nursing homes and Orphanages. We did shows for the patients and we got a lot of joy out of what we were doing together. It was amazing to see the smiles on the people's faces when we walked into a room with a pig on a leash wearing a hat and a costume for whatever occasion it might be at that particular time.
     After that Reggie and I got a call to be a regular visitor at Pine Run Nursing home in Doyelstown, PA where we started our Pet Therapy career together.

It was amazing to see how the patients reacted to a pig. Two of the ladies who were friends saved their toast  from breakfast to give her a treat ,and used to argue about who Reggie loved best. Then there were the two women who lived together in the same room for over three years and had never spoken a word to each other until the day I brought Reggie into their room to visit. The next month when we arrived to do our show one of the nurses told me how amazing it was that they hadn't stopped talking about Reggie and how cute she was.  From that time on we appeared at many nursing homes , adult day care centers, hospitals, special needs schools and anywhere we were need.

  The Woods School was a special in needs school for children and adults that we visited regularly. We were assigned to visit 17 classrooms on the Saturdays we were there. There was a patient in one of the rooms that was blind and was in a wheel chair who just loved pigs. When he would get depressed the staff would make oinking sounds to snap him out of it and he would laugh until he cried. The first day I brought Reggie to his room she went right up to him and oinked at him while rubbing her little snout on his foot. He was so excited about her that he would cheer up every time they told him that she was coming to visit him.
     Then there was the man named Joe that never opened his eyes inside the building. The first visit we did Reggie would not leave the room until she got his attention by pushing on his foot. We had to leave and I could not get her to come. She kept pushing on his foot until he finally looked down and opened his eyes to stare right in the face of this magical pig and laugh. These were just a small section of the people we touched with the work we did together.
     Our life together has been amazing   

     Shortly after that time we got another pig who was a rescue pig.

Reggie was 1 1/2 when Pepper came to live with us. We quickly intergraded her into the therapy scene and she loved going along to see the patients. I could only take Pepper when my X husband could come along. 2 pigs were way too much for me to handle alone so Reggie was the major star of the show. Pepper did not do many tricks because Reggie would not let her learn any..

     We were getting used to having  special pets and showing them off to the public. everywhere we went and everything we did revolved around our pigs and their special talent to make people happy.
     In 1995 we joined the Delta Society in Renton, WA. and became registered Animal Assisted Therapy Pet Partners. Reggie now had credentials. From that Reggie was honored to be one of 7 animals that were chosen by Life Magazine as a hero for all the therapy work we were doing all over the Delaware Valley. She was in May 1997 Hero edition.

       As time went on we became involved in doing Kiss-A -pig contests for schools and businesses to help earn money for charities. and in just one year Reggie earned over $10,000.00 for charity kissing people. She loved to snooty kiss.. 
   While we were still doing therapy work we were also doing the Fair circuit in the summer time. That was a fun time we all had with our pigs. We even took over one entire motel with our pigs in NJ every year we went to Sussex Co Fair. 

As a group we did many things for the public like the Christmas we put on a fashion show for the opening of the show The State Fair
this was in the Meriam Theater in Philadelphia PA. The mayor, His Honor Ed Rendell was one of our Judges. 

It was a wonderful time and got me in place for the next step in my life as a piggy Mom.
          
     Because of this connection I made with the mayor who is now our Governor in PA I became what is known as the zoning Guru. I am now the top zoning consultant in the world for the companion potbellied pig. Because our pets are pigs they are not allowed to be in a lot of municipalities' as pets so we fight ever day to change the laws that were put on the books forbidding us to have them in our homes. 

 Well as you can see I could go on and on about the potbellied pig as a pet and what we have accomplished with them by our sides but that is for another day and the book I am writing about my life with Reggie and my other piggies. Reggie has passed into spirit but she left a legacy unrivaled by most humans I have known.

I now have a new little piggy named Little Willow White Feather and we are still doing educational shows for children but nothing at all like Reggie and I did. I am semi retired mainly because I'm tired and kind of burnt out. I continue to fight for potbellied pigs to be excepted as pets . Hopefully someday this fight will be won but until then Im here to see that we can still enjoy the special companionship of one of the most delightful miss understood animals on this planet the amazing PIG.