Tag: fantasy in childhood

OUR MICHAELMAS STORY

The Vipava Valley is a magical place: there is something profound about nature here, something almost mythical about it. It feels it has stories in every hidden corner, and it invites you to read them by sparking your imagination.

With the arrival of autumn, I really adore the fog dumplings in the mornings that cover the waking, yawning valley. There is a little hill above the village where we live, and it looks as if there was the source of the fog. As if, hidden inbetween the trees there was a cave with a spring inside where the white fluid mist started cascading down into the basin. I was so taken by it one morning when we were leaving for the kindergarden, that, I pointed it out to my son: “Look, the dragon is awake, filling the valley with its breath!” His eyes got wide open, and he looked at me with a timid surprise: „How do you mean the dragon?” read more