Sun and Sand-Witches
Just the other day, hanging around with our boy Artur, rolling in the sand and building sand-witches; I love and thoroughly enjoy these times with him. Although I am his Daddy and he looks up to me and admires me he teaches me so much to enjoy all sorts of lovely things. Children are so close to their roots and can teach us to get closer to ours beautifully; they have such a natural and inquisitive way of going about things.
Of course they are a lot newer to the world than an adult and so they don’t see things in the same routine. It’s so easy to get lost in routine and to stop being inquisitive. It’s too easy to get used to life the way it is and to forget to be open for more. Artur teaches me over and over to recognize what’s happening in the perephery of my sight instead of just seeing what I am focused on anyway. children are not as conditioned as we are; the older we get the more we are conditioned, sculpted and the more we armour ourselves. Children are usually unarmoured and can slip into different games and roles much more easily which is how they learn.
Children try things out, create new storys and have unrational solutions in their endless imagination. Their concepts are not bound to physics or any other rules and laws. This means that their creativity is immense. It’s easy not to notice when we just think they are children and that while they are playing we know how things work. But in this creativity and limitless thinking is a great key to our roots and to creating our lives in a way we love to live; a key to the root of being ourselves.
Get outside and move to your roots!
wild-horse 08/2014