Juneau Alaska

February 2019, the day before my keynote presentation at the annual Southeast Alaska AEYC conference in Juneau, Dave Newton drove me to the edge of the Pacific Ocean. to enjoy the beauty and collect stones for participants to use in hands-on play explorations and self discovery. A way of unifying hands, heart and mind.

Crystal is a conference participant who wrote in her journal,…“I loved the stones in my hand. They felt smooth and cool. They came from the shore that’s a five minute walk and I felt a connection to them. They are all different shapes and sizes. Their color is consistent with slight variations of a middle tone gray. I let the feel of the stone heal me through its simple splendor. I started to feel the other materials closest to me. I loved looking at and holding in my hand the pieces of driftwood and the pine cone. Lightly touching the pine cone against the direction of the petals produced a light, sharp noise.”

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