Conney Freese-Posthuma

“Circus can't just be beautiful. It has to be weird. It has to be frightening.”
― Elizabeth Schulte Martin, Everything You Came to See

“I feel the nights stretching away
thousands long behind the days
till they reach the darkness where
all of me is ancestor.”
― Annie Finch, Spells: New and Selected Poems

“God loves each person, I believe; although, just like we do in our private homes, He reserves His kingdom only for those whom He enjoys.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“I should add, however, that, particularly on the occasion of Samhain, bonfires were lit with the express intention of scaring away the demonic forces of winter, and we know that, at Bealltainn in Scotland, offerings of baked custard were made within the last hundred and seventy years to the eponymous spirits of wild animals which were particularly prone to prey upon the flocks - the eagle, the crow, and the fox, among others. Indeed, at these seasons all supernatural beings were held in peculiar dread. It seems by no means improbable that these circumstances reveal conditions arising out of a later solar pagan worship in respect of which the cult of fairy was relatively greatly more ancient, and perhaps held to be somewhat inimical.”
― Lewis Spence, British Fairy Origins