I can feel it Fall ing on us...

Summer is wild and free. We do lots of busy all over movement with very little rhythm. Like butterflies we are all over the yard and house, yelling Marco from the windows to locate the whereabouts of a little one. We are at the pond, the garden, the chickens, out walking, having parties and company.

But fall is coming. I feel the spiral inward beginning, the need to prepare for the cold, laundar the warm clothes. The change of the earth access has started the marble in its downward or inward motion toward the winter solstice and personal inward journey until next spring. I have begun making more routine actions in our day, preparing foods for storage and planning our Curriculum around the coming seasons. Quiet time had to be reinstated, more of a daily rhythm is taking place at LillyZoo and it is getting dark earlier...

Our day starts with the 'Head' We get up and do probably what every body does in the morning, our daily chores. The girls are little chatter boxes and then start with heady activities and curriculum of the day, playing games, puzzles, singing, drawing, painting and examining stories or music.

In the middle of the day we lean towards the 'Heart' activities something with rhythmic feeling. For us right now it has been mainly Quiet Time for the 3 yr old who needs to stop rest and listen to just breathing and her heart beating or the sound of her infant sister suckling. Sometimes the 5 yr old needs this too and will succumb to her own quiet meditation.

At the end of the day their hands need to work hence the 'Hands' part of our day, cleaning the work space and organizing. lace up cards, playdough, connectigons, play house or making dinner with Mom cutting veggies or fruit.

Soon I will be feeding the fireplaces, baking bread, cooking cooking cooking and spinning a fine yarn. The sheep and wool festival will be next month. First comes the tomatoes, then the apples then the wool, and lots of fire wood.

ahh the spiral inward...