As one child began to look for\nthe snow monkeys we wondered where this came from. Of course, we can never be\nfully sure, but the guess is that it began with the vines that are intertwined\nthroughout the forest space, tangled around and across the trees (both the\nliving and the dead). The vines are called monkey vines. But one particular\nwalk there was a lot of snow that clung to the trees and vines, and when you\nshook them the snow fell and hit our faces, bodies, and the ground. Perhaps the\nmovements of hands, limbs (human and nonhuman) and snow together storied the\nmythical snow monkey. Perhaps stories are mythographies?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As the group of toddlers look up\nand call to the snow monkeys with their boisterous \u2018EeeeeeOooooEeeeee\u2019, Shelley\nand Kelly wonder Snow\/monkey\/vines \nor snowmonkeys!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Reaching this understanding took\ncommunication from a child, a parent, an educator, a researcher, the tree\nvines, snow, and wind. They say it takes a village. I think this is a pretty\ngood example of that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As one child began to look for the snow monkeys we wondered where this came from. Of course, we can never be fully sure, but the guess is that it began with the vines that are intertwined throughout the forest space, tangled around and across the trees (both the living and the dead). The vines are called monkey vines. But one particular walk there was a lot of snow that clung to the trees and vines, and when you shook them the snow fell and hit our faces, bodies, and the ground. Perhaps the movements of hands, limbs (human and nonhuman) and snow together storied the mythical snow monkey. Perhaps stories are mythographies? As the group of toddlers look up and call to the snow monkeys with their boisterous \u2018EeeeeeOooooEeeeee\u2019, Shelley and Kelly wonder Snow\/monkey\/vines or snowmonkeys! Reaching this understanding took communication from a child, a parent, an educator, a researcher, the tree vines, snow, and wind. They say it takes a village. I think this is a pretty good example of that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4,13],"class_list":["post-326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tracks-tracings","tag-multispecies","tag-paying-attention"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/witnessingruinsofprogress.climateactionchildhood.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/witnessingruinsofprogress.climateactionchildhood.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/witnessingruinsofprogress.climateactionchildhood.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/witnessingruinsofprogress.climateactionchildhood.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/witnessingruinsofprogress.climateactionchildhood.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/witnessingruinsofprogress.climateactionchildhood.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327,"href":"https:\/\/witnessingruinsofprogress.climateactionchildhood.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions\/327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/witnessingruinsofprogress.climateactionchildhood.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/witnessingruinsofprogress.climateactionchildhood.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/witnessingruinsofprogress.climateactionchildhood.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}