Finding the Floor - A thoughtful approach to midlife motherhood and what comes next.
Listen to stories told by Camille Johnson as she reflects on her life raising a family of 5 kids, being happily married for 22 years, and finding the joy and laughter of it all. She has been trying to find the floor to her kids' rooms for a while and gets a peek about once a week. Come listen as she shares her journey of finding her floor both literally and figuratively as she contemplates, life, love, cleaning, pets, books, remodeling, being a taxi driver, finding wholeness, living as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and figuring out what she finally wants to be when she grows up. If this podcasting becomes a thing well maybe this is it. Thanks for listening!
Finding the Floor - A thoughtful approach to midlife motherhood and what comes next.
Finding the wonder in an ordinary life
“…And make the ordinary come alive for them. The extraordinary will take care of itself.” In this episode I will be sharing a quote from William Martin from the book, The Parent's Tao Te Ching: Ancient Advice for Modern Parents. In this quote is the idea that we need to help our kids find wonder in the ordinary things and the extraordinary will take care of itself. I share a little bit from 3 Nephi chapters 1 and 2, that some of the people were no longer astonished about signs and wonders. I mention my youthful ideas, looking forward to extraordinary things and not realizing how wonderful and happy an ordinary life can be. I then explore the quote by Plutarch, who talks about our learning less like a vessel to be filled but wood that needs to be lit on fire. Finding wonder and being lit on fire - all good things to help us appreciate the goodness of an ordinary life.
For show notes go to www.findingthefloor.com/ep194
I would love to hear from you! You can reach me at camille@findingthefloor.com or dm @findingthefloor on instagram. Thanks for listening!!
Thanks to Seth Johnson for my intro and outro original music. I love it so much!