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Rituals
May 13, 2016
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We carried banners that said, 'We want time to play.' 'We want more schools and less hospitals.'
-Mother Jones (1837-1930), Activist

In The Goodness of Rain: Developing an Ecological Identity in Young Children, Ann Pelo makes this observation about rituals:

"A ritual is a gesture of hope and faith. Something happens that matters to us, that touches our hearts, stirs our spirits, engages our minds, and we memorialize that experience with a ritual. We re-enact it, in the hope that it will happen again. With ritual we acknowledge that we have been fortunate and blessed, and we align ourselves with the possibility of further fortune, further blessing. Through ritual, we keep faith with what has mattered to us, and with ritual we position ourselves for another encounter with goodness, with gladness, with the reverberant generosity of life."

We must discover our place
in the natural world. Together.

Teaching Four Year OldsJoin author Ann Pelo on her year-long journey as she nurtures the ecological identity of a toddler and discovers for herself what it means to live in relationship with the natural world...

  • delighting in discovery
    and adventure
  • developing dispositions
    and skills for being in
    the out-of-doors
  • learning when to speak and when to be still
  • knowing joy, grief, reverence, astonishment,
    and gladness
  • embracing the comradeship of fellow explorers

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Victoria · July 31, 2016
Top Victory School
Ibadan , Oyo , Nigeria


Fantastic

Martha Llanos · May 13, 2016
Foro Red Paulo Freire
 Lima, Peru


Congratulations Ann Pelo as an advocate of children early contact with nature I feel your book has that vision of relating care and environmental protection since early childhood.

I also like to emphasize the fact that "rituals" are characteristic of indigenous people that have been the ancestral caretakers of environment however there is very little appreciation for them and the value of gratitude is at the central of most ritual and symbolic expressions.

For Peace in the world do hope that recognition,appreciation and inclusion, could have seeds in the mind and heart of small children.

Martha Llanos,PhD
World Forum Peru Rep.



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