My beloved Hero needed a day home from school, because he has Sun in Cancer. It's been a very moony week for him. He was having "severe stomach cramps" this morning and I think its related to iPad withdrawal as much as needing to poo poo and possibly a side effect of the wonky California rolls we ate from Trader Joes after shoe shopping. We took away his iPad privileges yesterday morning when he socked me wild-eyed and threatening after I told him the device couldn't come with us on his ride to school. All the way there he threw a kicking-and-screaming tantrum. Suddenly, like lightning it finally hit me...lo and behold, the Ipad games he was playing (the innocent ones where happy smiling cows innocuously squish pigs and gofers into red fairy dust death clouds) made him aggressive, sullen and less than life-affirming all back-to-back in a cascade of intense emotion. This morning I think he was bio-chemically dependent on his iPad fix*, and quite literally today was experiencing some sort of withdrawal stress. His Indian doctor couldn't find anything physically indicative of any illness. So, we drank tulsi tea and came back to Mother Earth.
I took the day off and we took turns reading about fairies, drawing new herb cards and adding new parts to our favorite board game "Wildcraft", he added alternative cooperation cards and created a skeleton board game. I took out some of my childhood (and young adult) artwork, and showed him some of my early sketches. (I'd wanted to show him the flower fairies I used to draw.) We sharpened and organized an ever-dwindling and growing array of Prisma color pencils, snuggled a lot, napped, baked chocolate chunk pumpkin cookies. After which he followed every request I had for him to assist me in cleaning up, with no protests whatsoever. Laying in the dark and snuggling he asked me questions about death and he pondered reincarnation, and we talked at length about the life cycle and where we may be in 500 years before he fell asleep peacefully.
Here's some stuff I did in junior high.
Year Book Cover Thumb Nail...
Queen of Hearts at the Bar...
Probably snacking on something like this...
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