Grim fairy tales

The deep golden puddles of light that embrace the trees and drip down onto fat little bunnies and plump ducks seems out of place today.

How can such fairy tale beauty coincide with the awfulness of this day?

How can Snow White be both the heroine and the villain?

Where did the fire breathing dragon come from?

Is it possible that Hansel and Gretel can evade the house of  horrors in the middle of the woods and still find their way home using bread crumbs?

Bread crumbs!  Such homely things.  Grounded by the wheat and yeast and water that made them.  Basic, back to earth things that speak of hearth and home in a world of fearful unknowns.

Children lost between the ways of adults blinded by the worlds ways.

The hero always fights unwillingly in order to save the innocent.

That is how he becomes the hero.