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This is the tale of how people change ~ even foolish, young, vain ones.

He was handsome, he was popular, he was adored,

but always something was missing.

He shirked off the compliments.

They meant nothing. 

He was Awakening.

He looked at the world around him of the first time,

not with any concern about his place in it, but of the world as its own self.

It was heartbreaking to see.

It hurt to look.

But he stared and studied and threw off his shallow vanity.

… no matter how much he was loved …

– From The Divine Diva Tour: A Fairy’s Tale ~ circa 2005

Reading over these words that I wrote twenty years ago, I am somewhat pleasantly surprised at how prescient and timeless they proved to be, while cringing slightly at the vestiges of vanity and self-importance that still seeped into much of what I did back then. Curiously, that adds an element of paradoxical tension to the moment, and I love a tension that condemns our personality quirks while playing them up at the same time. 

We have reached the sharpest turn of this project, where we have rounded the corner that puts us into a plane that doesn’t allow us to go back to the superficial glamour that informed the earlier entries. You can never go back to before, as some newly-awakened diva once sang in a musical called ‘Ragtime’. Awakening is part of the theme at work here; growing up is the other side of that coin. 

“In a society of complex controls, both crude and refined, secret thoughts can be found in the arts…” ~ Howard Zinn

~ The Divine Diva Tour: A Fairy’s Tale ~

1. Pink Frilly Fairy: Part One, Part Two, and Part Three
2. Homage to Herb: Part One, Part Two and Part Three
3. A Purple-Hued Interlude
4. Style & Panache: Part One, Part Two, Part Three and Part Four.
5. Purple Puff Confection: Part One, Part Two, Part Three and Part Four.
6. A Blue-Hued Interlude
7. Fuchsia Fabulousness: Part One. Part Two and Part Three.
8. Bad Boy Bangs: Part One, Part Two. and Part Three.
9. Vanity Under Where: Part One, Part Two. and Part Three.
10. Sugar Plum Ballerina: Part One, Part Two, and Part Three.
11. A Pool Frolic: Part One, Part Two. and Part Three.
12. A Cemetery Interlude: Part One and Part Two.
13. Powder Blue Fur Doll: Part One, Part Two, and Part Three.
14. A Milky Interlude 
15. Rock Out, Cock Out/ Hang Out, Wang Out: Part One, Part Two, and Part Three.
16. Cocktail Cocktale: Part One and Part Two.
17. A Fairy’s Interlude: Part One and Part Two.
18. Willy Wonkers: Part One, Part Two, and Part Three.
19. A Peacock In Everything But Beauty: Part One, Part Two, and Part Three.
20. Swan Lake Fantasia: Part One, Part Two, Part Three, and Part Four.
21. Black & White in Briefs: Part One, Part Two. and Part Three.