A Season of Learning, Turning, and Swirling

I'm back.

I've been here, just quiet.

 

 Officially we are all set into our fall schedule/groove. And it is our official first year of homeschooling. I'm so grateful for some of the mature women in my life who've raised gems amazingly and their words of encouragement and relief when I've gone and confided in them my needless concerns. 

A goal: Create an environment that nurtures in my children a hunger for learning. And that the heart of learning would be what is TRULY important, more than academics, more than perfectionism, more than worldly accomplishment.

A pleasure in my life these days is the 2 days of dance I get to teach AND enjoy taking class too!  Hello long lost muscles, how are you? I've missed you, and am truly enjoying the little torture I put you through in Ballet, and recall the pleasure of learning to release you in Modern.

So with that I shall leave you with our favorite Creative Movement activity this season:

Lying on the floor each draped in some fabric scarves (preferably the Granny ones you find in thrift shops; they are the most fluid moving), we are Geese. Rising to the music of the drum, resonator bars and the melody of "Wild Geese":

Wild Geese are flying high in the sky

Wild geese are singing an autumn lullaby

Winter is coming

Winter is near

Wild geese are flying high in the sky....

....and we fly throughout the room with our scarves, swirling them high and low, gliding throughout the space in no particular pattern, throwing them high in the air and catching them with our knees, elbows, heels and head.

Happy flying!

What is truly important to you, to communicate to your flock?