Energy waxes and wanes nowadays. But this Sunday I set off to see the sunrise and kept on walking all the way down to the bottom of our Hidden Valley area. And there is the Wes Miller Park. This has been set up for intermittent picnics with a locked store container. And down at the bottom of this park is the Sabino Stream. Even in early July this was flowing along happily — much to my delight!
We have just begun our Monsoon Season! It began July 2nd with a burst of rain and an evening of lightning! The lightning was too far north over the Santa Catalina Mountains to be forked lightening. But the sheet lightening flashed almost constantly for hours, delighting me — as did seeing the stream on the 6th. The visual world is where I am happiest.
My wonderful husband, Kit, was both a musician (trombone), and a music major in college. He was never so happy as in the world of sound. My brother, David, is a Super Taster! His level of JOY in talking about wine is similar to Kit’s talking about music. All of this strikes me as wonderful! We are ALL so very different and to discover a realm in which we flourish is — in a sense — to find our own “stream.”
It seems to me that education ought to be about helping us find those streams which flows through us.
And I ought to leave this piece Right There. But I want to add a tag. Not every one has talents like being a musician or a super taster. So I want to mention a very simple skill that everyone can exercise — showing respect to one another. When Kit would walk to a meeting in downtown Honolulu, he would say hello to everyone he passed, especially the homeless. He felt that greeting folks was powerfully important. A smile, a wave, a nod . . served to convey that he SAW that person as a fellow human being.fff
That “being seen” is essential to health. In fact Bessel von der Kolk said that the essence of Trauma is to be “unseen and unheard.” Help me Please, God, to see and hear those around me.
Story teller,
A Moment with God 
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