It's been a long, hard week. Sarah feels things so deeply and I struggle, sometimes, to help her deal with that. We've had a very out-in-the-world couple months, and I'm considering whether we need to draw inward for awhile, retreating into our little home a little more. This is not the week to make any decisions about that, but it's a good week for listening to my intuition, and to what I'm picking up from her.

We had a very social week, which was a lot of fun in many ways, but was a little more social than really seems to work for us. In our time at home we read more creation stories, some during fairy scouts and some on our own, and both Sarah and her friend A noted how few of the creation stories involved a Feminine Creator. Particularly noticeable and bizarre since creation would seem to be such an obvious topic for a childbirth metaphor. We read "The Woman Who Fell From the Sky", "Mawu-Lisa the Creators", "The Sun God and the Dragon" and bits of "Sedi and Melo the Creators". The girls drew some pictures inspired by the stories. They also designed outfits and made their own business cards on unlined index cards.

We finished our first Faerie's Tale RPG adventure, encountering a little boy named Jack who found himself a prisoner at the top of a giant beanstalk. :) That was a lot of fun, trying out our characters and figuring out how best to use our fairy powers to save the boy and outwit the giant. Sarah's also been playing with her Secret Agent book/kit, and as always Joe and Sarah are playing loads of their math card game. I'm particularly enjoying working on our common book - I copy in poems we like, and Sarah ilustrates them. With Brigid's day coming up next week, it seems like a good time to be playing with poetry.

We picked up a copy of The Young People's History of the United States, in honor of Mr. Zinn's passing, and have been reading bits of that aloud, along with a kids' version of The Omnivore's Dilemma.