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

The Growing Edge

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The Gift of the Moment

i often sit down as close to the moment of the the spark andke take the notes, and then i go back to it soon after. And soin that particular instance, i just decided that having two boys and two parents and this truck and the delivery man, it just became too many people. I wanted the any reader to focus on the one boy on his father's shouldere the other person whose name i'll never know. That was what really had a for me, had awakened me to the gift of that moment.

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