On
Friday afternoons at Phoenix Rising I meet with a little group of
girls, four years old to twelve. Being with them is always the best
ending to the school week. Last session I started sawing out wooden
rabbits for them, a lot of work but worth it! If you could have seen
their innocent, happy faces as they held - no,
caressed - the
rabbits already cut. They began creating designs on paper rabbits,
inspired by tiny wildflowers from outdoors, especially the perfect star
of sepals on the back of a buttercup. Their mouths turned round with
ooooooo's when we opened up a wooden box filled with bells and beads and
shining glass jewels that will dangle from ribbons and strings, similar
to this by artist Karen Davis. My, but newness and innocence are sweet
to behold!
I call them my pink girls because they all love pink and so much is rosey to them.
