Rituals

05/13/2016

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."

T.Bagby - Spend lesss time gathering information and more time teaching.

Children Learning With Nature Training Institute - JULY 2016

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