Part I. My sister Andrea and I were always attracted to the past, we used to make up stories since a very young age in which we were witches living in the past that we wore big romantic Victorian, Rococo, and Colonial Westerm gowns and corseted dresses etc...
 Years after the stories had stopped I found a beautiful skirt at a thrift store. It was high-waisted with a blue calico print, tea length, with white lace, ribbon and a corseted waist. Sometime later I was wearing my skirt while I bought some beads at a store, and an older lady with long gray flowy hair  told me she used to wear skirts like that when she was my age... This lovely skirt now belongs to my friend and Gunne Sax Lover Alicia.

Part II. In the summer of '08 at an Arts Summer program in LA a friend of mine named Sarah; who now lives in Denmark and I miss dearly; gave me a CD with a playlist of her favorite music, among them there was one song I could not stop listening to; no matter how much my family complained about the winy infantile voice of the singer. The song was Peach plum pear by Joanna Newsom; whom I then looked up eventually and saw wearing some dresses very similar to my skirt! Now she is in my top favorites, and I had the pleasure of seeing her live at the Oakland Fox theater for her latest Album's tour; in which angelical vocalist from the Fleet Foxes Robin Pecknold opened up for her.