#Earthschooling365: Day Seventy-Six
Inner Work Meditation (Heart): Today we will talk about the second of the twelve senses – the sense of thought. The “thought sense” is what enables us to understand others who are speaking to us and expressing their thoughts through speech. Do you understand people easily or do you regularly misunderstand what people are trying to say? Are you able to get to know someone after only a few conversations or does it take many months of conversations to get to know them? How would you describe your sense of thought? The process of translating what someone says into understanding takes practice and effort. It also takes practice and effort to express your own desires and feelings to others around you. Take some time today to mediate on what the “sense of thought” means to you. How would you describe your current “sense of thought”? What could you do to practice using this sense?
Nature Walk Idea (Head): Today I saw one of the young bucks grazing in the woods. His antlers were sprouting and will soon be much larger. They are still covered with a layer of velvet. I love the different kinds of antlers that deer have. No two deer have the same pair of antlers. Bucks are all bucks but they have different antlers. Oak trees are all oak trees but they all have different branches. Other insects and animals have very few distinguishing marks. For example, most ants look the same to me and robins rarely vary in color. It is hard to tell one robin from the next. Squirrels and chipmunks are somewhere in-between. Chipmunks sometimes have different stripes and squirrels often have different sizes or fur patterns. Your assignment today is to find other things that are not the same, things that are usually the same, and things that are different but difficult to tell apart. You can simply observe these things as you are out on your walk or you can have students create a chart in their Main Lesson Book (or a nature journal if you are an adult).
Photography Notes (Hands): Today’s assignment is to practice manual focusing. Most modern cameras have auto focus. However, in many cases manual focusing can be very useful. For example, in the photo I took today of the green heron I had to use manual focusing because the camera wanted to focus on the branch in front of the heron. However, I wanted the camera to focus on the heron himself. Today, try to find situations where manual focus is useful or simply practice using manual focus even if you don’t need to.
Verse: Young Buck
Copyright Kristie Burns
Soft velvet antlers
Spongy black nose
Silky pink ears
Comfortable clothes
Downy collar
Moonstruck
Gentle eyes
Young buck
*These poems have been created for many purposes – from early childhood circle time verses to inspirational or expressive. They vary from day to day so you may find the way you use them or enjoy them also varies. If you would like to set these poems to music consider our tutorial: Creating Your Ow Waldorf Verses or Finding Your Inner Voice.
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