pic by ilg of Dewachen Ilg in the Great Kiva at the Aztec Ruins…this is what happens when you bring a re-incarnated Rinpoche into Native American sacred places…
“Daddy!” Dewa shrieked as i appeared at the threshold of her Kindergarten Classroom, holding my Hall Permit from the staunch Check In personnel at Needham Elementary School, to pick my daughter up early in order to assist the 5-generation Durangoan Zink Family in their Mission to restore 50 acres of Animas River Valley to their vital and historic, wetland condition. We were going to spend our afternoon planting trees in wetlands. As i felt my daughter thump into my outstretched arms in front of her entire class and Teachers, a rush of low self-esteem swept over me…never in my life, let alone at age 5, has ilg ever been capable or willing to display such an outwardly embrace of Love. During our hug, i saw her classmates, each of them smiling at our embrace. “Okay…this mOMent alone is enough,” i felt to myself…yet, it was merely the beginning to another miraculously sacred ‘Daddy & Dewa Day Time’…c’mon…a lot of Dharma to follow!
Quote of the Day goes to Dewachen Catherine Ilg who came hOMe from kindergarten saying, “i realized today in school that what i think in my mind may not be real.”
dharma backstory:
Dewa has confided to Joy and i (though we’ve been Sensing it for months) that she is REALLY not diggin’ public school and that she sees herself as the “runt of the litter,”
Since everything is but an apparition,
Perfect in being what it is,
Having nothing to do with good or bad,
Acceptance or rejection
You might as well burst out laughing!
Dewa wanted y’all to see her Easter Basket in which she placed real top soil and grass seeds so that she’ll have real living grass into which to place her Easter Eggs…
When i asked Dewa what was her Spiritual Hearts’ most favorite music she floored me with her immediate answer, “The sound of my Daddy’s voice!”
so, Needham Elementary, where Dewa goes to the Shared Homeschooling Program 2x weekly, had a pretend “Lock Down” today. Joy Kilpatrick and i were all concerned about how the “Lock Down” might traumatize her and all, right? well when M(om)my brings her home and Dewa
runs into my open arms, she screams,
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