Holiday Lead Up
We're trying something different for the holidays. The tree is the same, the food will be the same (maybe), there will still be presents. We're only trying to introduce a few elements to honor our natural world and include a celebration of the return of light and our own inner light. So far, I'm getting resistance. From the book Heaven on Earth (Oppenheimer), I had the idea to start a Christmas table to help honor our place in the natural world. (We've been using this book for ideas on how to create our home environment to compliment what Scarlett is experiencing at her school). Last week, we recognized the mineral world. On a Christmas cloth we arranged items to represent the mineral world-shells & rocks. Ideally it would have included crystals, but our daughter is 4 and for some unknown reason, refused to have crystals. Then we lit one candle. Today we brought in the plant world-we found and decorated our tree and arranged greenery. Then I at...