Me On A Monday - July 2nd

It's a holiday Monday for most of us in Canada.  We had some really nice plans for celebrating Canada Day yesterday but unfortunately Mr Man got heat stroke from too much outdoors on Saturday.  So celebrations were rather just me wearing red & white & coming up with easy to make Canadian foods ... not that there is really any specific for Canada unless you count Poutine & Nanaimo  Bars, neither of which I made.  At the end of church services we sang O'Canada although most had forgotten that the words were yet once again changed.  This time the change is from "all our sons command" to all of us our command ... I'll say no more.

My Angel Focus for July is Forgiveness.  Now this is a heavy weighted topic (for me).  I will need to re-read a book that would be one of the three most influential books I've ever read, "The Magic of Forgiveness" by Tian Dayton.  Spoiler alert; there is no magic to forgiveness, it's work!

My latest library read is called "White as Milk, Red As Blood, The Forgotten Fairy Tales of Franz Xaver von Schonwerth". It's a translation by Shelley Tanaka with a forward by Philip Pullan, who wrote His Dark Materials (The Golden Compass is part of this trilogy).

I came to White as Milk, Red As Blood when looking for a recent translation of The Grimms Brothers tales, (recommended over at Divers & Sundry) which my library did not have, but this one popped up as an alternative choice.  Definitely not for children.  

Fairy Tales have been buzzing on my radar since I read The Thirteenth Tale; the character Vita Winter says "Every happy ever after was tainted.  Fate, at first so amenable, so reasonable, so open to negotiation ends up by exacting a cruel revenge for happiness."  

It got me thinking about story telling,  folk lore & fairy tales - not the beloved Disney versions.  To me Vita's thoughts are on the lines of  "be careful of what you wish for, you just may get it" which was always said in that parental warning tone.

What's your favourite fairy tale?  Do you believe in happily ever after?  Do you think that fate exacts a price for happiness? 
Is there always a price to pay for dream fulfillment?