Children are being encouraged to go out!! I think that most Grannies will be pleased with this news. A documentary film, released today will encourage children to get out there and discover the sights, sounds and smells of nature. The film is called
Project Wild Thing. David Bond, the director says children have "become disconnected from nature.... and we need to make more space for wild time in children's daily routine".
From the meditator's perspective, this move outside the limited world has to be a good thing. Whilst nobody would deny that the internet is a wonder, somehow receiving stimulus from a small square which can manipulate feelings with images is a poor substitute for the reality of the wonder of a live world. The world of nature is an educator, it shows things coming and going, growing and dying back, it tells a truth about life displaying itself in its many guises and it invites questions, great big universal questions about what has brought the whole great wonderful world into existence, what sustains it and what it might return to. This is Alfie's hen, hatched in an incubator in London, come to live in the country as a small chick, and now happily at home in the big outdoors. Thanks Alfie, your hen is looking forward to seeing you at Christmas and laying you some especially brown eggs.
Children are being encouraged to go out!! I think that most Grannies will be pleased with this news. A documentary film, released today will encourage children to get out there and discover the sights, sounds and smells of nature. The film is called Project Wild Thing. David Bond, the director says children have "become disconnected from nature.... and we need to make more space for wild time in children's daily routine".
From the meditator's perspective, this move outside the limited world has to be a good thing. Whilst nobody would deny that the internet is a wonder, somehow receiving stimulus from a small square which can manipulate feelings with images is a poor substitute for the reality of the wonder of a live world. The world of nature is an educator, it shows things coming and going, growing and dying back, it tells a truth about life displaying itself in its many guises and it invites questions, great big universal questions about what has brought the whole great wonderful world into existence, what sustains it and what it might return to. This is Alfie's hen, hatched in an incubator in London, come to live in the country as a small chick, and now happily at home in the big outdoors. Thanks Alfie, your hen is looking forward to seeing you at Christmas and laying you some especially brown eggs.
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