Learning From a Deep Well
Contributed by Carrie Bowell
I often reflect on what I am actually doing as I devote my time to my children. Some days, I feel a quiet panic—wondering if I’m hindering their development. I have to take an honest look.
And yes, in some areas, we’re not where a lot of kids are. But in the bigger picture, we’re discovering a way of connecting and uncovering a kind of knowledge that doesn’t exist within square footage or test scores.
I don’t want to flood my children with information. I want to nourish them with meaning.
I want learning to settle in their bones. Real understanding takes root slowly, quietly—often through experience, not just explanation. My hope is that the lessons they live through childhood will take them from theory to embodiment.
I am not here to fill spaces or patch gaps. I am here to guide. To walk beside. We are not racing through content—we are cultivating connection. And that process is timely, deliberate, sacred.
This looks like prioritizing quality of attention over quantity of content. It looks like trusting their natural rhythms. It looks like keeping their intuitive nature alive in a world that often rewards disconnection.
Where many identify with the surface or outer self—the personality self, with its thoughts, emotions, habits, and attachments—we are learning to return inward. That surface world can feel loud but hollow. It keeps people scattered.
My goal as a teacher is to help keep my children’s divine nature intact.
What I hope this path inspires is a deep sense of inner compass—The ability to think, feel, and choose from a place of knowing. The courage to trust their own learning rhythm.
Learning, for us, is not performance. It’s practice. As we grow together, we learn together.
This work is not always tidy—but it is alive. It’s a journey into the deep well— Where curiosity, knowing, and life converge.