Emerson has been asking to take art classes for months now. So this morning was a big day for her, it was the first day of a week- long art camp.

On the ride in the car this morning she told me she was nervous that the class would be all boys and I assured her that I did not think that would be the case and then she wanted to know if “Rad” was short for radiant? I said no it’s short for radical. So then she wanted to know what radical meant. So I told her that as an exclamation it was kind of like saying “Awesome”, or maybe even “to the extreme”. But that people could also be called “radical” if they felt really deeply or strongly about something. Well, I’m a radical about fairies she informed me. I know they exist.

At the school the instructor told them to warm up by drawing whatever they felt like and Emerson launched into a pencil drawing of a fairy and a sun.

My mind wandered to FLiF, the Fairy Liberation Front, with my radical daughter at the helm.