Children and nature
This were some notes based on some learnings by Vijetha.
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Meetup with Richard Louv
It was a great privilege to have an hour’s live call with the amazing author of this fascinating book The Last Child in the Woods …worth re-reading every once in a way! Just some of the points discussed… Sharing a few moments of awe and wonder during a recent solitary walk… The audience had people…
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the focus in education
“We need to find a way to live in harmony with nature and with each other, and AI is a threat to this goal.” ~ J Krishnamurti (1985) More people are seeing this in today’s world… this perspective on the focus of education makes a lot of sense… “AI is an iceberg that is going…
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finding nature
Doing a session on Contemplation of Nature with FoundNature, we were to spend some time with any object of nature in the way the facilitator Ajay Rastogi described. As a practitioner of some silence every day, it resonated with my practice 🙂 Authenticity is the common foundation it was really nice to learn from the…
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invisible interconnections
They are invisible only as we take them for granted, but visible if we really look out for them. Since Darwin, we have generally thought of trees as striving, disconnected loners, competing for water, nutrients and sunlight, with the winners shading out the losers and sucking them dry. The timber industry in particular sees forests…
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a child growing up
For a protective parent who’s seen the child since a baby, at some point we start finding it challenging to accept the son or daughter’s increasing independence. We still want to protect the child, and warn the child about how dangerous the world is. Sometimes unknowingly, in our very words we start creating a dangerous…
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chiguru – morning 4-Mar
The spectacular coral tree has so many guests If you just can’t get enough of it, you can look at this video – better still find one in your neighborhood and spend some time with it.
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freedom from the idiot box
That’s well known, but its SO irresistible… And in today’s world, it would be youtube and whatsapp and other social media. If we take a break, we can relearn to breathe…
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no, not a snake…
This was an amazing sight… it looked like a snake at first sight, but then it was pretty strange… After a quick search based on a wild guess, it turned out to be larvae migrating, possibly some kind of a gnat larvae. But why are these larvae moving like this? You might guess that it…
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a star attraction
A star fruit tree at a friend’s house was in full blossom… it has this phase for just a week’s time or so. It had rained heavily and though it had stopped, it was fun to feel it raining again from the tree while picking the fruits, for sharing with friends. There were tiny pink…
