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by erin | 06.20.2012

Ready for a day at the pool? Here’s a stylish ensemble for your favorite boy and girl!:

For the Boys:
Bobo Choses tank ($42) at Babybird
Sailboat swim trunks ($37) at Smallable
Sperry Top-Sider Halyard boat shoe ($25) at Bloomingdale’s

For the Girls:
Orange round sunglasses ($84) at Children Salon
Girls’ rope tank swimsuit ($40) at J. Crew
Strawberry sandals ($50) at Nordstrom

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HEY THERE, I’M ERIN

Design for Mankind is not a brand. There’s no sales funnel, no newsletter strategy, no editorial calendar, certainly no virtual assistant. It’s simply a place where I can work out what it means to be human, in fits and starts, all faults and furies. Occasionally, I speak worldwide. Every now and then, I design products. Sometimes, I write bestsellers. (Mostly, I burn the pancakes.)

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  • Today marks over 1,000 kids learning and loving alongside @othergoose. And while I don't have any bells-and-whistles giveaways, and certainly aren't busting out the fine china over here (touché, dear toddlers), I can't possibly let the moment pass without a deep and true acknowledgement of this community.⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ From the daughter of two public school teachers who sought a different way to usher children into this wide world: thank you.⠀⠀ From the discouraged homeschooling mother in search of a village to rally among: thank you.⠀⠀ From the slow living author stepping away from the spotlight for a sec: thank you.⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ Other Goose is my dream, and I count each of you among the dreamers. It is an absurd privilege to teach (and learn!) alongside you and your kids.⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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  • I’m often asked @othergoose how to pave the way for nature-obsessed children, and while my very indoor-preferring self never expected to raise two so fond of their turf, I am and I have.⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ I could tell you tales of leaf boat races and butterfly habitats and failed permaculture experiments. I could bore you to tears with afternoon picnics to the secret pond or an evening money trail with nickels for miles. But if I were to gather everything I know about children and the great outdoors, about fostering a love and respect and responsibility for the world around them, about losing themselves in an imagination greater than our mind can attain, it would be this:⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ Give them a tree.⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ Give them one of their own, to share or not. Have them name it. Let them own it, adopt it, care for it. Knock on the trunk, see who lives inside. Paint a picture of it. Paint a picture in it, on it, over it. Let them build beneath. Let them belong to.⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ Let them lug leftover PVC pipes across the yard, tracking mud and all sorts of chaos through your flowerbeds. Let them re-purpose planks of wood as pulleys and beams. Hide books between craggy limbs, whisper secret codes to enter in. Let them leap and linger. Spit mandarin seeds from the branches. Hang a bee hotel. Lean a welcome sign.⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ Let them climb. Let them fall. Mostly, let them be.⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ You’ll find two things: an arresting buoyancy in the souls of your children.⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ The same in your own, as well.⠀⠀ ⠀
  • We are not meant to be the heroes of our own stories.⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ We were not placed here on this marbled planet to save ourselves, to run from foxhole to fortune and call it a solo rescue mission.⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ We are not here to center our existence, to become Endorser of Self, believing that if we'd just create a vision board and affirm our own truth, maybe then the spinning globe might fall in step with our Converse sneaks.⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ Listen: when we seek for the plot to begin and end with us, it will.⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ The truth is this: we - you and me and every one of us in our cellulite glory - are a single limerick dropped into an epic of dust and drowning and, mostly, love. ⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ We're not the hero.⁣⠀ We're not even the main character.⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ This isn't our story.⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ May we, instead, take up the role of a bit player, recognizing that a thousand epics are authored in our own small neighborhood, and many are in need of an extra.⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ May we forgive our mother. May we take out the trash. Give up our seat. Hold the umbrella. Unlock the door.⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ May we step down from our perceived skyscrapers, remove the mask, forgo the power. ⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ Mostly: may we be brave enough to trudge through someone else's extraordinary story, nary a cape in sight.⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ ⁣⠀
  • I often find a sermon smack dab in the middle of Bee's science books.⁣ ⁣ Today's:👇🏻⁣ ⁣ “Sea cucumbers can regenerate themselves. When needed, they release their organs to a predator and slip away, fully reborn in a month’s time.⁣” ⁣ In short: they spill their guts, surrender their insides, become reborn.⁣ ⁣ (Sounds an awful lot like mercy, I think.)⁣ ⁣ Quietly, expectantly awaiting your own small and many rebirths.⁣ Delivering them, then allowing them to deliver you.⁣
  • Q: You still on that baking kick, Erin?⁣⁣ ⁣ ⁣ A:
  • A creed for the minimalist 👇🏻⠀ ⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ Rule No. 01: Resist the temptation to assume the rest of your family will magically climb aboard your new adventures in #KonMari. This is your lane, not theirs. Anticipate your fair share of swimming against the current. (Bright side: stronger muscles.) ⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ Rule No. 02: Keep your habits in check here. Is your perceived need for a tidy home causing you to resent your husband’s dusty vinyl collection? Are you unable to appreciate the generosity of a kind gift because it’s not leaving trace chords of jubilation? Think of the larger purpose: living with less so we have more to give. If we forget the end goal (which includes grace, freedom, flexibility, etc) and focus on the means, we’re forsaking the very thing we want to accomplish.⁣⠀ ⁣ Rule No. 03: Laugh at the irony.⁣⠀ If we’re paying attention for long enough, we’ll notice that no matter how incredible and life-changing our choices are, there’s a fair bit of humor and contradiction in each. I can’t tell you how many times Ken has ventured to his (cluttered! messy! filled to the brim!) woodshop to unearth the saved-for-someday item he needs to solve a problem. The truth is, we need our differences.⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ I need Ken to remind me to be resourceful and not wasteful, to reframe clutter as abundance and be generous/thoughtful with the overflow. He needs me to remind him that he probably doesn’t need the ketchup packet from 1992.⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ (But alas, you never do know).⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ Rule No. 04: People are more important than things. This is true both for how we spend our money/time and how we react to the ways other people spend their money/time. This is true both for what we bring into our home and what we allow others to bring into our home. ⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ All else is all else.⁣⠀ Amen, Amen.⁣⠀ ⁣⠀
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Author of Chasing Slow and founder of Other Goose, Erin Loechner has been blogging and speaking for more than a decade, garnering over one million fans worldwide. Her heartfelt writing and design work has been recognized in renowned international events for clients such as Walt Disney World, IKEA, Martha Stewart and Home Depot. Now nestled in a Midwestern town, Erin, her husband, and two kids strive for less in most areas except three: joy, grace, and goat cheese.

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