Young Giles

Uh, is anyone else looking at this, particularly the one on the right, and thinking Harry Potter?

don't let the door hit you on the way out

I'm watching the final episodes of Babylon 5 in which most of the characters are moving on, leaving the station for new positions. For nineteen years, I've considered myself a part of Four Quarters Farm. I had friends who'd introduced a group of us to the land in the beginning and for years a number of us would go up for festivals. Over the years, the others dropped off but I continued to go. I had one friend, Heather, I hung with there and others I recognized. As I dropped all festivals other than Fire's Rising, I stopped seeing Heather because she doesn't attend that one. This year's was the first Fire's Rising I'd been to in a while. I thought I'd been there the year before last but comments suggest it has been more years than that. Anyway I've been going less and less but I still felt a connection to the land.

This last visit I wandered around to my favorite spots and didn't feel that old connection. I don't feel that this is my place anymore. Leaving I felt like Lyta Alexander as she left B5. No fanfare. Nobody there to see her off. She just left. I saw a guy I knew enough to speak to and I waved, but he didn't wave back. No fanfare. I left.

I feel a little sad but I think all I'm doing is acknowledging a transition that's been happening for a while.

Mingus?

Can anyone tell me while Giles is sitting next to Mingus from The Unwritten?

The Unwritten: Mingus is, as you've probably already guessed, the winged cat.


And Giles petting a winged cat.