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]]> By: natalie http://natalieshell.com/2007/05/03/why-i-write-for-children/#comment-18967 natalie Wed, 06 Jun 2007 09:46:35 +0000 http://natalieshell.com/2007/05/03/why-i-write-for-children/#comment-18967 I have been thinking about a little quote I read about children having conversations with the grass -I knew where I had read it, at the back of a book on conversations from the ever fabulous Mara in 2006...it was the section where the Elder of the community had responded. But the book was in the basement stored with many others and today, as I went to clean up and move and found it I was surpised at how the quote was not as specific as I remembered it...indeed it was hidden amongst a lot of words...and that made me laugh even more - you just never know which words of your sayings are going to be the most important to someone else ;) so there is sometimes less need to be TOO crazy critical... the quote (because this is also why I write for children - and increasingly as I focus on our inner and outer environment and contexts, and learn more about the natural one, want to stimulate more of those conversations) "I get so sad when I see how we adults cut off the conversations our children have with life - with grass, trees, birds and their own imaginations. Engagement in the conversation of life is discouraged when in fact it is the most essential of our capacities, it is embracing the spirit of true conversations that connects us all to all forms of life....I want to suggest...that life itself can be a conversation - with other people, with nature, and with all life" - Anne W Dosher "How Can We Talk It Through" p214 The World Cafe... Like Anne, my question is around how can we talk it through - the invitation the openness the practice and the joy of life...that said my questions have changed a bit, evolved - I used to ask 'why are they not talking' and then I asked why are we not talking - because I have a role to participate too and responsibility- and now I wonder - not just, how? but 'shall we?'' I have been thinking about a little quote I read about children having conversations with the grass -I knew where I had read it, at the back of a book on conversations from the ever fabulous Mara in 2006…it was the section where the Elder of the community had responded. But the book was in the basement stored with many others and today, as I went to clean up and move and found it I was surpised at how the quote was not as specific as I remembered it…indeed it was hidden amongst a lot of words…and that made me laugh even more - you just never know which words of your sayings are going to be the most important to someone else ;) so there is sometimes less need to be TOO crazy critical…

the quote (because this is also why I write for children - and increasingly as I focus on our inner and outer environment and contexts, and learn more about the natural one, want to stimulate more of those conversations)
“I get so sad when I see how we adults cut off the conversations our children have with life - with grass, trees, birds and their own imaginations. Engagement in the conversation of life is discouraged when in fact it is the most essential of our capacities, it is embracing the spirit of true conversations that connects us all to all forms of life….I want to suggest…that life itself can be a conversation - with other people, with nature, and with all life” - Anne W Dosher “How Can We Talk It Through” p214 The World Cafe…

Like Anne, my question is around how can we talk it through - the invitation the openness the practice and the joy of life…that said my questions have changed a bit, evolved - I used to ask ‘why are they not talking’ and then I asked why are we not talking - because I have a role to participate too and responsibility- and now I wonder - not just, how? but ’shall we?”

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