September 2021
I am very excited to share that I am on the verge of a new vision for this blog/website/organization. I am in the process of shifting and reorganizing my work around childhood, nature, culture, play, learning, teaching, and individual and community transformation around a new banner: wiseearthchildren.com. Stay tuned for more details on this very exciting development! For now I want to share what will be a monthly feature of this blog; a monthly calendar organized around the natural world, cultural diversity, childhood and education. Please bear with me as I figure out the best format to present this calendar but I strongly believe that perfection is the enemy of the good. Please contact me with suggestions as to how I could make it better and more useful to you!
In the meantime let me leave you with this from “Earth’s Wild Music: Celebrating and Defending the Songs of the Natural World” by Kathleen Dean Moore. “I know that whatever is left of the planet when the pillage ends, that’s the world that the children will live in. Whatever genetic song lines,whatever fragments of whale squeal and shattered harmonies are left, that’s what evolution has got to work with. Music is the trembling urgency and exuberance of life ongoing. Truly, if we can’t save the songs, can we save , can we save ourselves? In a time of terrible silencing, what can we hear if we listen carefully, and what can Earth’s wild music tell us about how we ought to live?” Yes, listen to the cricket and the katydid as we ponder day turning into night, summer into fall, and the wild music of the earth in its becoming. The sounds of katydids and crickets at night: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJGzYJCD7KU Better yet, turn off your computer, phone, or whatever and experience this wild music directly with your children.
