Troop 41 - Do the John Wall OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO

SUCCESS! I think . . . I spent a lot of time, trying to get this blog and my access to it updated . . . More later.

Nuestra Escuela - 21st Century


Thinking about books and movies and music to use as resources - part of the curriculum. . .. in no particular order or importance: Alice Bailey - Education in the New Age, Starhawk - The Fifth Sacred Thing, Alice Walker - The Color Purple, Marge Piercy - Woman on the Edge of Time. Manda Scott - Dreaming the Eagle (and the rest of that series about Boudicca), George Leonard - Education and Ecstasy. There ar emany more - I need time tp\o prganize my lists.
Peace out on this "Columbus Day". Power to the People who are protesting this as a federal holiday. Time to celebrate Chief Joseph's or Sititng Bull's or Black Elk's birthday!

Nuestra Escuela - 21st CenturyThinking for a week or so about writing an outline of a proposal
Who children 1 to 13 years and their families
Where northern NM, perhaps Lama Foundation for parts of the curriculum
When planning 2006-07; limited summer program (a pilot) June and July 2007
What self awareness, the Breath, growing food and flowers, drumming, dancing, work as seva. Use Steiner's developmental stages. Listen carefully.

The school proposal at Lama needs more work, so I have been thinking of an alternative scenario. Watching the 5 - 7 (they kept moving!) children under age 4 at Shabbat on Friday night, I thought 'let's just start with them, and their families." What I envision is a sort of mystery school where kids who are still awake or not tooo far asleep, are nurtured to learn the 'old' ways - of contemplation and compassion. I imagine it might be somewhat similar to the monasteries in Tibet and Thailand - for example - where very young children are brought to learn the Buddist traditions. I don't know if the Sufis have something similar. Even ancient Christians had young children, often orphans, in their sanctuaries. And the Celts, and I feel sure, other tribal peoples began the education of children at a very young age (see Manda Scott's series that begins with Dreaming the Eagle). All for now. . . Much to contemplate.

I have been thinking about the sense of having 2 blogs so closely related. . . .and I see that this one could be the more factual, idea-based site and the other has already become a place of poetry and emotion. Seems like a good balance to me.
Tha annual meeting at Lama with proposal for a school there will prove interesting, I plan to take my Nuestra Escuela notebook of many years to reflect among my own direction.
Back on Sunday.