First Meeting

Early in the meeting, we stumbled into a familiar discussion about children. There seems to be a vague sense that we lose something very valuable as we grow into adults. Joanna remembers thinking about adults, "What's wrong with them?" Spontaneity is a crucial part of what is lost - the sense of always being in touch with what's right in front of us that makes it so refreshing to interact with children for Kaitlin. The question that lingered in the room for a while was how one could recapture that authentic spontaneity while functioning correctly in the world.

Andreas then moved us on to the planned reading: Rudyard Kipling's poem, "If". Living with principle as being a source of meaning. As the discussion of what the poem is really about started to get too heady, Joanna brought us down to Earth by suggesting a brief writing exercise that tied the poem to our day to day lives.