June 4, 2006 Update

And to make an end is to make a beginning.
The end is where we start from. T. S. Eliot

Life is filled with endings and beginnings often leaving us hanging out in the middle or “neutral zone”. Our response to these transitional times is dependent upon how we honored, avoided, celebrated, or ignored “ending experiences” in our childhood.

Children experience innumerable changes that require letting go of the old to make way for the new: moving, graduations, retentions, illness, accidents, adjustments in the family structure, movement from grade level to grade level or curriculum to curriculum, birthdays, communions, bar/bat mitzvahs, divorce, death, separation, teen transformations, physiological developments, etc.

How are the children in your lives experiencing transitions, rites of passage and their spiritual pilgrimage? What can you do to support, honor, cherish or validate these special times or milestones? What meaningful connections, revering rituals, compassionate conversations, mournings, or celebrations can you embrace that acknowledge and champion the labyrinth of children’s lives?

In gratitude for countless endings,

Namaste’
Adrian Reznik

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