This weekend has been a whirlwind of insight, learning, and joy.
I feel SO HAPPY.
The people at the Elementals Gathering were phenomenal. Just top notch. Everyone. No exceptions.
We came and gave help. Received help. All in love and tender support of one another as humans. Totally outside of the programed event, of course. A woman from the Netherlands needed help getting to the city. She flew into st Louis just as we were driving through. So I drove her in. Then our radiator blew, and none of the shops in town could get our car in until next week. So another attendee let us use his tools to replace it ourselves.
There was sharing and love. No harsh words. I didn’t hear any cursing. Plenty of “bad” words, but none in any negative sense. As Owen Benjamin BigBear said, there are no bad words.
My kids played ALL DAY for 3 days straight with the other children there with zero conflict. And I mean zero. No arguing. No tantrums. No screaming from overstimulated or burnt out kids. No emotional breakdowns. No physical breakdowns. Every child there, of the fifty or so that were there, were beautiful, healthy, robust, emotionally regulated, caring, never tried to hurt another kid, were simply a JOY to watch play. Completely absent was the familiar worry and sadness as I see disproportionate, dis harmonic gaits.
More, the calm serenity that I felt embraced everyone, the grounds, the time, and even now, I still feel it as we make the 11-hour drive home. The knowledge that such people exist, come together in quiet but joyous community, and then part well satisfied is so nourishing to my heart.
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