This morning I was tinkering around the house putting odds and ends into place, when my orchid blossoms that I had stuck into a thick catalogue for pressing fell to the floor.<\/p>\n
At the exact time, I was also thinking about the workshop I was planning for the upcoming NAEYC conference.\u00a0 My workshop is about the relationships between spiritual development, nature, and STEM or STREAMS as I like to call it.\u00a0 As I saw the blossoms fall, I thought to myself, \u201cYou know, it is not about what a child learns, per se, but more about the questions that come to mind, that lead the inquiry and the learning.\u201d<\/p>\n
Many questions popped into my head as I saw those beautiful blossoms:<\/p>\n
What made them fall off the plant?<\/em><\/p>\n How were they attached?<\/em><\/p>\n How did they grow?<\/em><\/p>\n Will the plant grow new flowers?<\/em><\/p>\n I also found myself wanting to examine the color and texture of the blossoms.\u00a0 They have changed from velvety soft to delicate and fragile. \u00a0This is but one small reflection in a day, in a life, a life we all lead.\u00a0 I am wondering what questions pop into your minds! \u00a0Do they touch you in a spiritual way?\u00a0 Let me know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This morning I was tinkering around the house putting odds and ends into place, when my orchid blossoms that I had stuck into a thick catalogue for pressing fell to the floor. At the exact time, I was also thinking about the workshop I was planning for the upcoming NAEYC conference.\u00a0 My workshop is about Read the full article…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/growing-wonder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/growing-wonder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/growing-wonder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growing-wonder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growing-wonder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/growing-wonder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":467,"href":"https:\/\/growing-wonder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions\/467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/growing-wonder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growing-wonder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growing-wonder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}