We had a great day at the beach and an opportunity to talk about death.
Scout said the day before she wanted to see the water. Already she is a Cape girl.
We loaded everyone in the truck and headed out. We are so lucky that one of our (yes, one. WE have 3 ocean and 3 pond beaches!) town beaches is Sandy Neck . It is 7 miles long, we can camp there, build fires, drive the jeep on and ride the horses. As you can see the dogs can enjoy it too.
We LOVE collecting treasures.
The landscape looks different every time. Today, lots of smooth stones and tumbled shells.
Finding crab shells
Walking Seamus
We believe death is part of life. It is something that should be talked about as easily as anything else in your life. There are photos of a dead dolphin coming up. If you don't want to see them stop looking now.
We came upon this dolphin on the beach. It was a great opportunity to talk about death. What you talk about is personal to you and your family and not important here. We talked about it. At the same time we talked about it's body parts and how it swam. It all seemed normal to Scout.
Living in the woods and on a farm we will continue to have these opportunities. We will continue to talk about it.
This one was about 75 yards away from the first. It was much smaller, maybe a baby. We talked about bones and felt our own bones.
We learn something everyday, each night we marvel in all the learning opportunities that we encountered throughout the day. The life of an unschooler...Life is Good!
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