The Elves are still there!

I watched this recently, and was quietly amazed. The title refers to a point in this video (31:17) where the speaker, Jonathan Pageau says, with a smile in his face, 'The fairies are still there!'


'The fairies are still there!' he said.
And my heart broke.
Though I would rather have said, 'The Elves'!

Revealed in the Felicitatious Joining of Things -
In their proper order, space and time.
Not in re-creating things that were -
making artefacts for a museum -
but creating things new
in the same language as the old!

This has given me a track to follow:
Old, overgrown, treacherous with potholes,
but the direction is true!

The Elves are still there -
Let's make them welcome, shall we?
We have to start with buildings,
to separate Inside from Out;
Put gargoyles and monsters on the Out side, where they belong.
On the In side there must be light, shade, space, intimacy, comfort, work.
A place for the art of hospitality;
Another for the art of the kitchen;
A Hall of Fire, where the Great Tales are told (old and new!);
A Chapel, for the Breaking of Bread;
A Studio or two, one for painters, another for those who use chisels;
A vast shed, for the tools of the Garden;
A barn, for the things that sustain Life;
A coach-house, conservatory, greenhouse, pantry;
A Workshop, with a forge, blowtorches, vices and tools.

For 'The artist is not a special kind of man,
But every man is a special kind of artist'.