Thursday morning · Hedegärde. The Daffodil Gazette pulls from the editor’s Isfolket Book 47 — Tili’s saga — and prints the smallest kindness in it: a bat that came to Tili’s cell in the long dark of her hundred-year sleep and said, guds fred, lilla vän. God’s peace, little friend.
The saga is a long dark story. The paper is not printing all of it today. It is printing the smallest kindness in it. That, this morning, is enough.
Inside the three pages: a profile of Tili and the bat who came, a bilingual FLADDERMUSEN centerpiece, an editorial ON THE SMALLEST KINDNESS (deliverance is a big word; company is a small word and it can arrive today), a Thursday weather, a Notturno by Alfvén on the small speaker, a tea + dark rye + salted butter breakfast, a horoscope for the waiting ones and the small kindnesses, a Hundred Years essay, a small fragment about Tili’s doll walking home, and a wall of thanks the paper is collecting on Sunday for the small winged friends who arrived in your long dark.
The image on the cover is The Maiden Faerie — an Alice Saga photograph from the Konstnärsnämnden Final 10. A girl in the wood, waiting for the small kindness.
The full three-page PDF is attached below.
Reply to any Gazette email and the note lands on the editor’s desk in Hedegärde before noon. This week the paper is collecting first-names only — the person who arrived in your long dark and just stood there. Printed anonymously as a wall of thanks on Sunday.
Kärlek.
— a. daffodil, founding editor
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