Summer\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Summer Moon<\/p>\n
Jon and Jen moved around the house this morning, packing and stowing, wiping Ruth’s tears–the wrong cap on her bubble bottle–and feeding a smiling Gabe.\u00a0 It was the deliberate preparation of seasoned parents, checking this and that, getting ready.\u00a0 As I watched, I realized this was the true generational transition.\u00a0 The birth of grandchildren seems to represent the moment when the grandparent’s generation gets legs in time.\u00a0 It’s not.\u00a0 It comes when those children integrate into their family.\u00a0 It comes when their parents take responsibility for them in a functioning, dynamic family.\u00a0 It comes when tears are soothed, food comes to the table, when boundaries are set, when imagination is nurtured.\u00a0 It comes when love creates a new family. \u00a0 I saw all this over the last two days.<\/p>\n
Jon put together Ruth’s playhouse.\u00a0 We bought it a year and a half ago on sale at Costco.\u00a0 It’s actually a utility shed, but a very cute one with windows and peaked roof.\u00a0 We’re going to put white lights over the whole area and dress up the inside so other grandchildren can use it too.\u00a0\u00a0 Permaculture focuses not only on the plant life in an area, but on the human use of the land as well.\u00a0 The playhouse adds generational nurturance to the built environment here.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile the attacks on our new drip irrigation continue.\u00a0 Vega seems to have taken a particular interest in where the netaphim should be.\u00a0\u00a0 She is not content with things as they are; rather, she sees things as she would like them to be and acts.\u00a0 She apparently sees the netaphim with multiple holes, disconnected from its sources of water and distributed not where the plants are, but where she sees a better design.<\/p>\n
Life has vibrancy here.\u00a0 A good thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Summer\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Summer Moon Jon and Jen moved around the house this morning, packing and stowing, wiping Ruth’s tears–the wrong cap on her bubble bottle–and feeding a smiling Gabe.\u00a0 It was the deliberate preparation of seasoned parents, checking this and that, getting ready.\u00a0 As I watched, I realized this was the true generational transition.\u00a0 The … Continue reading The True Generational Transition<\/span>