Late Summer to be Exact

From the 3rd week of August to the Fall Equinox, we move into the Earth Element.
In between each season we might find the need to reground. How convenient for the term Labor Day. To put down our works and to honor all we have accomplished. In other words to sit back and relax.

One of my favorite things of holidays is that everybody leaves kinda. It is so quiet where we live and barely a car drives by.
One of the benefits of homeschooling is we don’t need to be on the worlds time line.
It is quite lovely for me.
So here I am today, regrouping my energies and sitting and journaling.
As my little jaguar becomes more independent, so do I.
I am finally having a moment to do just this. Journal. Color. Paint. I plan to get back into sculpting also.
It has been so strange the process of becoming a Mother.
I went from never ever wanting to have kids, get married again, and here I am.
I always figured if I did conceive then I would definitely homeschool. I learned so much from Papi at home than I ever recall in school.
I spent lunches with principals bc I seemed to feel the need to defend myself more from others than actually learning.
So the principals became my friends. lol

Now she is on to 5th grade and we do such a mix. Forest time, co op time, individual time, solo time.
It is nice. Though I will admit bc of covid times we had a set back on her meeting new friends but she is again and I am happy for her.
New experiences with new kids, though she is missing friends and the Universe is slowly brining them back into her life.

She is teaching me so much. I don’t recall playing much with my parents the way Chris and her play. It is amazing to see. He is very much a big kid. It seems that my “fun” time with my family was cleaning and learning and watching National Geographic and Murder She Wrote or Novelas.
Lots of Novelas lol
I also am learning how anti social I am.
I can teach yes and gather with people I know, but as I have become a Mama, I seem to crave more of my Me Time more than anything.
Maybe becomes my schedule is of teaching all day then massaging and reading energies of those I touch or encounter.
So the Me Time is essential for regrounding.
It helps we have so many windows to the outside, bc I always feel like nature is close.

As I look at house for sale in the mountains, it makes me sad that there are so little windows. So low ceilings. It seems the churches have the only high ceilings though I believe we should make our home an altar for our sacred selves where the light can pour in.
Hmm. So I will search churches.
The three things I loved from church, when they said “Peace be with you” , the smell, and the lighting. Really nothing else. There were lots of repetitive lectures, yet when we would leave the people would behave unkindly and didn’t quite follow the words, which was very confusing.
’Peace be with you’ seemed to be the one moment of acknowledging strangers. I really liked that so I say “Peace be with you” at the end of all my classes.
Interesting how the studio has that feel. Actually I think I will add a stained glass window at the entrance now.

The imprints of childhood have been flushing in these days and it has all been super interesting. And I have chosen to write again for Victoria.