“First I must blow the fairy dust on you,” says Peter, and the Darling children shout out lovely thoughts—Fishing! Hopscotch! Picnics! Candy!
Now it’s true that J.M, Barrie’s original 1904 play, Peter Pan, never mentions what the lovely thoughts might have been, and perhaps these details were added fifty years later in the Broadway musical…
But I like to imagine Eglantine the Great Egret thinking lovely thoughts before she takes flight—Minnows! Crustaceans! Worms! Insects! Mollusks…
And so many other delicious Egret thoughts…
And, with her diaphinous white wings, she doesn’t even need fairy dust.