Canoeing
Today, we watched a TED Talk to learn about listening, wrote a poem about what makes up a body of water, and then used these listening skills while canoeing at the Narrows.
The Ted Talk focused on why listening is important and how it is disappearing in today's world. Listening is needed for compassion and to gain understanding. Without listening, violence has and will continue to become commonplace. Today, people would prefer not to listen, and instead people create their own bubbles, sometimes by wearing headphones.
To Make a Lake
Take blue green water, choppy waves, tugging currents, and colorful sail boats on the horizon.
Put sunshine, towels baking on the sand, and kids with small floaties in a slimy seaweed bottom and large rocks.
Blend with clouds and a wispy breeze until dragonflies dart among the cattails.
Sprinkle in some seagulls (it is enough when their deafening call is heard every few minutes).
Bake in a coarse sand bed with sharp drop offs at 52 degrees Fahrenheit or until your legs are covered in goosebumps.
It is done when it will take an hour for you to get warm again.
Let cool until sand coats everything and for garnish add laughter and the sting of splashed water.
Best served with long sleepy rides home in the car.
We canoed for three miles along the Little Miami River. It was extremely fun and was quite an arm workout. Some people stopped to swim, but instead I chose to paddle slowly and listen to my surrounding. On this trip, I heard the swish of the trees along the side of the river, the dripping of paddles and their entering and exiting of the water. Occasionally I heard turtles slipping back in to the water and the scrape of my boat against rocks or sticks.
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