Autumn Equinox
I think one of the things I’m really trying to do this year is take some of the pressure off of the day.
Whether it’s the Autumn Equinox or one of our full moon parties or even a holiday, I don’t want there to be this huge buildup where everything is pointing toward one day, and then the day happens, and suddenly it’s over.
I don’t want it to feel like we’re always rushing toward the next thing and instead I want it to feel more like a slow simmer. Like we’re just living our way into the season.
So we had already started talking about autumn and what the Autumn Equinox means. From our seed dispersal conversations and our mini beast discoveries.
Then our yoga had shifted into autumn yoga.
We had made apple pies after reading Amelia Bedelia’s First Apple Pie.
We were noticing what was changing outside and what was changing in our days.
The weather feels different.
The light feels different.
The things the children are finding and talking about are different.
And I think that’s what I want more of. I don’t want the children to only know that autumn has arrived because I told them that today is the Autumn Equinox. I want them to already feel it happening around them.
I want the season to kind of creep into our days through the books we’re reading, the food we’re making, the yoga we’re doing, the things we’re noticing outside, the conversations we’re having.
And then the equinox itself almost becomes less of this big event and more of this moment where we stop and go, oh yeah… we’re here now.
Fall is here.
And there’s something about that that feels really important to me, because childhood already moves so fast. In a blink, I always say. I don’t want to keep creating more things for them to rush toward. I want them to have these long stretches of time where we’re just noticing and building and experiencing it as it comes.
Not rushing toward it.
Just slowly becoming part of it.
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