Happy New Year! Where to Begin?

Friends! Happy New Year! 

It's 2020 and we're still here -- making, mending, sewing, baking.  Can you believe?!  Scrolling through our prior posts, we last checked in and shared our thoughts way back in 2018.  Whaaat?! Why so silent? 

Hmmm.

Well -- new year, new decade ... and lots of inspiring, great reads to kick off the new year and start strong.  One that I have been turning to quite often lately is Cleo Wade's, A Small Book About Your Power to Create Big Change in Our World: Where To Begin.  

If you haven't read it, I highly recommend picking it up today.

In one of my favorite passages, she writes, "silence doesn't change the world. It changes us. It shrinks us. It takes our stories and feelings away from us and buries them alive.  Unearth what is buried within you. Free yourself in this way."

   

YES!  I hear you.  The time to speak up and speak out is NOW.  Silence doesn't change the world and boy, could the world sure use some changing.  

With all the tragedies unfolding across the world and the images of the devastation happening in Australia right now, climate change has been on the forefront of discussions in our house.  

We've parsed through several websites (appropriate for a third grade level) and spent some time on NASA's Climate Kids site, digesting all the information.  click here  

Well, she wanted to take action and we came up with a plan.  

Over the weekend, we put together an informational poster board about climate change to share with her classmates at school.  

It wasn't required.  There's no extra credit.  

But maybe - just maybe - she can sway a few more kids to get on board and join her in the fight for our future.  

Because, as I told her -- "The question is not whether or not you are powerful (YOU ARE) The question is .... 

What will you do with your power?"  -- Cleo Wade

She took this poster to school today, hopeful and proud.  

Well, I'm feeling hopeful too, Little Mama -- hopeful in our children to help guide us to what is right. 

May you find peace and love in the new year and remember these parting words from The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse (another fabulous read to keep on your nightstand): "Sometimes all you hear about is the hate, but there is more love in this world than you could possibly imagine."

Peace.