This is an interim episode regarding the movie ELF and the misattributed parent experience.  This short segment also discusses fatherlessness through the ages (in art and literature) as well as a year-end mixed tape/ playlist just for the MPE community! Thanks to friends at Inspired Yoga for opening my eyes and heart, for inspiration in kindling the closing mantra, and to the memory of Maurice Sendak and Richard Scary (not to mention the Grimms) for writing stories for children that hold truth ... sometimes shocking, mystifying, frightening, but truth, nonetheless.

"I refuse to lie to children," says Sendak. "I refuse to cater to the bullshit of innocence."