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Episode 39:The Gift of Presence with Poet & Educator Naomi Shihab Nye

The Growing Edge

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I Love the Boats That You Mention Words as Boats

"I was carrying my sleeping, very heavy son on my shoulder as i walked down the street," she says. "And somehow it gave me a great a sense of comradeship with this other father." The reader can imagine herself or himself right there doing that and watching out for the splashes from those trucks.

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