Learning is not confined to a classroom.
Some of the most important things we learn happen in the ordinary places of life — around the kitchen table, in the garden, through conversation, through work, through mistakes, through curiosity, and through the people we love.
For many years, I educated my children at home. That journey taught me that education is about far more than completing lessons or collecting information. It is about learning how to notice, how to question, how to create, how to care, how to think, and how to participate fully in life.
Home became our classroom, but life was always the curriculum.
We learned through books and nature, through art and music, through history and mathematics, through cooking and conversation, through responsibility and freedom. We learned by doing things together and by allowing room for questions that did not always have immediate answers.
As the years passed, I have some to see that this way of learning extends far beyond childhood.
We are always becoming.
There is always something to notice, something to understand, something to practice, something to release, and something new waiting to be discovered.
Nurturing Spirit is interested in that kind of learning — the kind that helps us become more awake to our own lives.
Learning how to live well.
Learning how to care for what has been entrusted to us.
Learning how to make room for beauty, creativity, connection, and meaning.
Because a life well lived is, in many ways, a life continually being learned.
Nurturing Spirit 