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‘This is the strangest thing that has ever happened to me. I had lived in this house for eight years in ***, but the time had come to move on. I had developed a great appreciation for the two large trees about twenty yards in front of the house. I would hug them and sit by them; talk to them/meditate by them. I loved them so much. I thought of them as an old couple about two hundred years old, one male and one female. I had set in motion everything about moving, selling house and packing. There was a very large window looking out front from living room. I was doing yoga on living room floor and had just finished, was lying, looking up out the window upside down, looking at the big (male) tree. I said out loud to myself ‘oh shoot, I forgot to tell the trees I’m leaving’ and thought ‘I’ll have to go visit them and do that today.’ In an instant a large number of brown objects came flying directly at me from the tree I was looking at and they all hit the window right above my head. It was a loud clatter. It scared me slightly. It happened so fast I couldn’t tell what it was. It reminded me of a cross between birds/butterflies and dry brown leaves. This was in May and the trees were all green. There was no wind and the trees had tiny leaves anyway (not large enough to be the size of birds). I instantly got up and went outside to look around. There was nothing. No birds, no leaves anywhere. Nothing. It was jarring. I instantly thought fairies. I took it as the tree or tree spirits hearing me and saying goodbye. There were no marks on the window. It was loud enough that it could’ve been a handful of rocks getting thrown/hitting the window. It felt like such a short/fleeting encounter but has left a big impression on me. I’m just so curious! What was that? Will I ever know? I’ve always looked for fairies out in nature and invited them to show themselves to me, but I don’t recall them ever doing so.’ ‘Leaves/also a swarm of birds, too fast to really know for sure.’ Why fairies? ‘It just felt like it – nature spirit content.’ Fairies are ‘nature spirits.’