Footprints in the Windsm # 1455
If some people who have trouble thinking are in some ways regressing, then what activities do we give to 9-year-olds, 3-year-olds? Could those things bring pleasure to some of our elders, help them feel engaged, heard, and touched?
If this has a fraction of truth in it, then let us examine our role too: we, their children now become their teachers, have to move beyond thinking there is a norm for where they should be. Where they are, what they are experiencing is the norm and if they do not meet what we thought, it is our shoulds which must change, for they are only where they are and lack the power to change that. We have the power to change. For now. Someday we too….
So we might move into their world and experience the awe, wonder, and fright of it all. We have the skills to take them by the hand and make it feel as good as it can.
For them. And in doing so, for us.
This then is the bringing together. Around the now, and the here. This bringing together is leading out to the larger more humane world.
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