How to Find Faery —by Nan Fry Watch and honor your cat when his green eyes look through and beyond you.  Do the same  for your dog when she sniffs and barks at invisible things. Find a beech forest or even  one tree. Stand under it and listen. The rushing you hear will be wind in the leaves or the murmur of elves. Take a bath in the moonlight. Where moonbeams touch the water's skin, sometimes a nixie will swim. Go to the shore and watch the tide ebb at sunrise or sunset. Notice how the wet sand holds the sky's hues of mauve and coral. Gradually the light brightens or fades, and the sand returns to its own color. Even so the world of faery washes over this one, then recedes. Here and there a shell gleams. Pick up the shell and go home. If it fades in the dry light of day, shine it with your own spit as a sign of the magic within you that rises to meet the world's darkness and flash. Page last updated: 7 Apr 2007 Background  by Aine's Cauldron Ireland's OWN logo by Míchealín Daugherty Copyright © 2007 Ireland's OWN. All Rights Reserved.