I have a cousin who has four children and she tells me how they process each day before bed. I get a visual of a food processor. My cousin s family grinds into little pieces, and purees, their spelling tests, the baby s dirty diapers, any harsh words or uncomfortable moments and the pesto rigatoni on their knees, like some families say their prayers or other families take out the compost bucket. She feels that this helps them to have restful sleep and a fresh start the next morning. All of the vignettes above would have to fall under the process .
Growth is a process, voice is a process, community is a process, so is reading and writing.
The earth spinning on its axis each day is a process. Taking a deep breath, sometimes several, so I don t yell at my children is part of the process. Some things, like digestion or growth and probably even voice, happen automatically, without our taking notice in it at the moment it is happening. We can be aware of it at the time it is occuring or we can examine it in hindsight. I hope that over the next few weeks we will be able to adequately process the process and the term will feel crispy, less overcooked.