Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Volcano Arenal, Erupting

It has averaged several of these poofs with rumbles, varying in intensity, daily since we've arrived here... We've not ventured very close by foot... yet... 

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Toucans from our backporch

This is the way to start your day.. meditations on nature

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Upside down swinging

My dive is coming

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Birdwatching

From our backporch...
Hummingbirds, vultures, countless others. . Some parrots and toucans

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SWIM

Pretty wild swimming behind those falls!!

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Bird Watching

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Aye carumba.... a test

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Busy day at the river

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Complete with a rope swing

I saw triple flips and back flops ouch... lots of fun.. the locals are amazing how they know this swim hole. .

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Local Swimming Hole

A favorite and most fun place for sure. Everyone should swim under some waterfalls somewhere, at least once.. or else at least consider that I spent extra time enjoying this for you.

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Birdwatching

Parrots, hummingbirds and Toucans... from our backporch...

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ERUPTIONS

Eruptions and rumbles from Vulcan Arenal are a regular occurance... getting good pictures rare!

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Swimming hole, Costa Rican style

Just a short walk to this great swimming hole... waterfalls to swim behind, good diving rocks, perfectly refreshing clean water and a rope swing. .. who could ask for more!

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Arenal Vulcan. .. Active volcano

No worries. . It is already erupting and lava flow is far far away.. on the other side.. to see it we must go around mountain and then it is best at night.. when we do we'll post pictures. . Enjoyed hotsprings rushing river swim yesterday. .

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What Unschooling is not

We cannot tell you what unschooling is when the point of unschooling is to unleash the individual. Because to nurture self-expression and inspiration and find the unique individual purpose within, is different for everyone. This is the point.

We cannot tell you what unschooling is going to be for you and your children because unschooling is an individual experience. We can only refer to what unschooling is not. Each individual has a multitude of possibilities and inspirations. It is our role as parents to lend support and guidance so our children can realize their purpose as it comes to them.

This unfolding process can appear through examples and experiences, mentors. As long as you're there in support and as facilitator you offer opportunity to learn via freewill according to inner directive. That 'stewardship,' of our children, is the role as we see it, as parents. We learn as much from our children as we expect them to learn from us.

Unschooling is not instructive but constructive. Unschooling is not curriculum nor assessment based but more about becoming, about faith in natural processes unfolding, rites of certain passage. The best we can do most of the time is get out the way. Unschooling is not a rat-race but self-paced. Unschooling is not competitive but cooperative. Unschooling does not sacrifice the individual for the whole but waters the roots to enjoy the fruits..

At home with

At home with
Gnomes

Missing component in Education today

One critical missing component of typical education today is a focus on the development of Emotional Intelligence. You have probably heard of it. It ultimately has to do with the empowerment phase necessary of balanced education. This is opposed as you know to disempowerment. People who are achieved in emotional intelligence can actually put knowledge to work effectively. Those with limited experience in this area accumulate knowledge in the left brain while the right brain gets a headache. Connections become lost due to fragmented understanding. As coursework was taught to them in fragmented ways so goes the confused, undeveloped in emotional development and disempowered not knowing why. By designing the modern-cultural aspects of education devoid of relevant connection with emotional intelligence, modern culture is, by-design neutered. .. Devoid of the tools necessary for its' own empowerment. . Something critical to us all, at such rapidly transitory times.. We must evolve and Adapt. An immediate good first step could be a degree of Unschooling for all teachers with emphasis and inclusion to learning how to bring E.I. to the class.