Sunday, July 21, 2013

The Jedi and The Fairy Princess

There is a story about a princess who wants, more than anything else, to have the moon.  The King invites astronomers, physicists, and engineers to the palace to figure out how to capture the moon.  They use graphs and charts to explain to the king that his daughter’s request is impossible.  Then the King’s old friend, the Court Jester, steps in with the solution.  He asks the princess how she believes they could capture the moon.  She explains that you could just climb up into a tree to grab it and that it is only as big as her thumbnail and made of gold.  So the King make a little gold moon gives it to the princess and she’s cured, but wait, not so fast!  The King realizes his plan will be foiled as soon as the moon rises the next evening.  Again he turns to his great thinkers who suggest blindfolding the princess and other impractical sort of plans.  Again the Jester asks the princess why the moon would rise even after she possessed it.  She explained that after she looses a baby tooth it grows back and a flower when picked grows back so then the moon will also grow back.  It’s so brilliant.

Captain Cora leads a game with princesses and jedi


                I was recently thinking about this fable.  Sometimes, when you’re planning a party you can run into snags.  For example, maybe you are throwing a princess dress up party for your little girl’s birthday but she has friends who are boys and girls.  As an adult we might wonder, will the boys feel left out?  Will they have fun?  Let the boys and girls dress up however they like.  I adored this party because a couple of boys were knights, which is very fitting at a princess party.  Even though they were Jedi Knights!  In the imaginary world of children, Jedi and Ninjas play Simon says with fairy princesses.  It’s a beautiful thing.

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