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Thalia rummages through an oak cabinet in the dining room.
Nią peeks around the corner from the kitchen. “You’re looking for?”
“Yohhhhhh-gert container! Or jeh-leee jar!”
“For wildflowers?”
“Yahhhhhs!” Tal peeks out the window to check on Cal’s collection. “And instead of ihnn the jar with water, they’re going on the outside — with glue!”
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
~Marcel Proust
Note from Loveletterist:
We are creative beings, creating our lives one choice at a time.
Here's the link to Day 2 of video Beta:
https://us02web.zoom.us/clips/share/A2F3MSClxtHXgOPVsqErk_qC4xrMJ83bhACyExZF61QTEHv9gA
I want to share a today discovery: a publication by The Bruderhof/Plough called “Seasons of Community Living” right here on SubStack! Today the central topic pertained to how and when technology is both available and useful in their families.
No smartphones until graduation from high school. No screen on the wall for distraction or plain unproductive use of time, only laptops for adults for their work. Maybe a couple other exclusions.
So, what in their place. Much emphasis on being a part of Nature. Developing connecting skills, thru face to face (expressions and voice tones) interaction. Around the dinner table, with other neighbor’s children, in sports activities. To me the emphasis is on immediacy of experiences and learning such skills by direct participation with other live, present humans. Marianne in New York, whose children have a graduated high school now, shared that in high school a couple sons were envious of classmates with smart phones. Public high schools. Once they received smart phones, the same kids expressed gratitude for not having all the tech until later. They noted the wasting of time and accumulation of junk information by peers who had such tech all their lives.
In Bruderhof communities, that communal structure avoids one or both parents working outside the home, juggling soccer mom duties to this or that after school activity, and as a result often not eating meals together.
Still much to learn, but I see their practices centered around their shared belief in a common God. That, in turn, dictates family structure, living environment, and an emphasis on connection with each other and learning enhanced cooperation. Trade offs to be sure!
I can sense your excitement growing for the release of “Poise.” How does completing a book register in your heart and soul? Feeling a bit ungrounded as the pursuit has reached a conclusion and there’s not another project routine at the moment? Or have you tried to envision the next project (while still on Poise) to keep your creativity stimulated?
Of course you’ve started the 30-day video challenge with the creativity which that requires. 😊 It’s all good!