March 26: Beginnings

This post was began - who knows where it ends???- at 8:something in the morning...

This one's for the Unschooling Blog Carnival, hosted by Enjoy Life Unschooling. March's theme is Beginnings.
What a loaded topic!
I've been thinking on beginnings the last couple of days, and how this sparkly and dazzling subject is relative to our lives, and the way we live.


Beginnings, and all that the word/action/thought entails, are at the tippy-top of my list.
Like Mornings.


Beginnings always end in a question mark.
They're hopeful.
They're progressive.
They're exalting.
They give us a feeling of being Unlimited,
Undaunted,
and Empowered.
And like my friend HRMJ said, beginnings are a divine thing. They allow us to stop what was happening years ago or moments ago, and start afresh. As she said, "I can stop ~ right then and there ~ and start again."

You see where this is going, now, don't you?
Of course you do. :)

Obviously, to those who have a need to create themselves and who love Possibility - which is what Beginnings are - living an unschooled (un-regimented, free-flowing, and self-sovereigned) life.... well. It only makes sense, doesn't it?

Unschooling is full of beginnings. Every day has them.


In our family, upon starting our day we rarely know what the day will hold or offer us.
That might sound chaotic and frightening to some, but it truly isn't.

We have our comforts around us.
We have our favorite tools. (Tools being the things that we use to learn and create our lives.)
We have each other.


Somewhere in the beginning of our day we get together (if Daddy is home, he's included, too, of course), and each come up with a few ideas of things we'd like to do together.

So there is rhyme and rhythm to our day, though 'tis a flowing sort, and not anything rigid, or really even remotely structured.

And in there we find the Possibility.
And all of our Beginnings.

Under the microscope:

scorpion, beetle, corn chip crumbs, leg of honeybee, salt, carrot, paper, an ant.

* * *

* * *
Another - innocuous! - beginning.
Here's "Footprints".
(Which comes from Trevelyn's List, today.)
The Mama of the house quickly weighed all options...
holiday wrapping paper turned over...
tears easily...
taped to floor (verra cold and wet outside today)....
tearing, scooting....
oh, wait -frustrated children,
deflated Mama....
"Hey! I have an idea. C'mere, guys. Whaddayou think about this?"

So we have Footprints.
And so.


And so!!!



And guess what?

Easily and merrily.

* * *

And now...

And now we have a couple of other things in mind....

Lasagna - with all the trimmin's,
-now how Settled is that?-

Toy Story,

and the makings of Chocolate Chip Cookies.
See?

You Just Never Know!....
in the Beginning.

Life's a beautiful thing.