A Time for Rest

There comes a time in nature when a rest is due. Our culture does not always condone nor support such phases of rest, but nevertheless, rest is truly a part of every life cycle in nature. On a farm we leave fields to lie fallow for a time, plants turn inward in autumn and winter towards their roots, and many animals hibernate.

Sunseeds has been a thriving home-based natural learning environment for many children and families for 11 years and it has been a truly wonderful journey of love, laughter and childhood magic. However, the ovelighting star that makes the magic here at Sunseeds has quietly begun to whisper…”.it is time for a rest.” The land, the trees, the house itself, and even the teachers, all need a rest; a time to rejuvenate has come upon us. As the tree bark from our favorite climbing tree recovers from the gripping hands and feet of little ones, as the grass grows back over the hill where children have run and sledded and biked for so many years, the teachers also find our way into new growth too! It is time for us to rest against the roots of an old-growth tree, to lay beside a mountain waterfall or to stare at the clouds drifting by in the crisp, clear autumn sky.

And so it is that we pause enrollment for a time, to allow the busy-ness of life to pass us by, opening for new growth to spring forth when that time is right. It is the way of life, the way of nature, and the way of our living, breathing, soulful little school out here in the North Carolina woods.

Until the little shoots of Sunseeds’ new growth begin to peep up, shyly, above ground, we will be tending & nourishing our roots and dreaming of what is to come.