Every Wednesday morning at the Inside Outside School, we have Peace Circle. We gather in the theater space together, light a candle, meditate to center ourselves and then one of us shares a story that connects to some aspect of Human Greatness. When we were working with "Identity" we heard the story of the Soul Bird, the bird that lives in each of us, the bird that has the keys to open the little drawers inside of us that hold our feelings and bits of our self that we may open often or rarely. Sometimes we tell the soul bird which drawer to open and what we want to think and feel and sometimes it decides all by itself which drawer to open. The children did some amazing watercolors to represent the soul bird inside each of them. In our lives, the soul bird dips into some dark sticky places where the drawers are stuck and when they open there are sticky feelings in them. It is nice to know that we can handle feeling those things and that there are plenty of drawers to open that help us feel better. As we work with big ideas like Identity, Integrity, and Intuition, we learn more about who we are and how we can be true to who we are. This week we will be working with the dimension of "Imagination." Do you think trees have feelings? I wonder.
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