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🌱✨As I read The Garden of Peace with our not-so-little person today, I thought it would be a regular reading with a few new questions. I was [insert all synonyms for thrilled] to hear much deeper connections to the real world and inferences to ideas of bias and marginalization. This did not happen overnight or even after multiple readings. This moment made me pause and consider the impact of years of tiny conversations.
Our children listen to and watch us all year long - to the news stories we react to and when we don’t; to the bias we hold, the times we look away and when we fight fiercely.
Vaisakhi in 1699 was a time to decide what the future could look like. It was a time to consider what happens when communities come together and choose not to fall for calls of hate or diminishing another person’s dignity. It was a time to plant and cultivate seeds that a whole community would benefit from, without prejudice. This is Vaisakhi. This is who we are. The sum of our daily actions.✨🌱

📚:The Garden of Peace published by Saffron Press 14 + years and 🌱

✨🌱A request - I ask you to share just one activity to support the children of Ga za. At children receive care and education. One teacher, Hadeel Al Gharbawi is a journalist collaborating to create a safer space for learning and growth.✨🌱

📚Teachers, librarians, camp counselors and youth care workers often adapt at the drop of a button, each and every day of a school year. I’m asking you to adapt ONE activity to serve the needs of a group of children, like our own. I am here to help and answer any questions.🌿

UNRWA’s Sam Rose has stated that a classroom full of children have been k1lled every single day for 2 years now. ONE CLASSROOM FULL OF CHILDREN GONE EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. Can you even imagine going back to school in September and finding that not one of the students in your class had survived the summer?

What can I do? This is the question that keeps surfacing - perhaps the normalization of a netherworld has caused some to freeze in place and not know how to support. I’m remaining hopeful that this world will be shaken to act. Shaken vigorously so not to succumb to the conditioning of unseeing another person’s humanity.

Remember the phrase, it takes a village? Well, we can be that village. As teachers, we have the skills to act - by sharing just ONE activity to offer children surviving in tents surrounded by sounds of horror the space to breathe, to hope and dream, to be children.

Please be that person. Find the link to SHARE ONE activity in the bio.
We also need translators - if you can translate activities please send a DM.
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