We Will Get The Kids Out

The first thing I did this morning when I awakened was to check on the Thai soccer team.  These past few weeks have found me with so much emotion.  The minute I was the kids were safe it happened.  I wailed.  And wailed.

I'm always the dreamer.  Wanting people to work together for a common goal.  To make things better for all of us.  No hierarchy.  Just people finding their way.  The Thai people did just that.  Of course they have the usual cultural idiosyncrasies.  If they don't know something they will respond that they do.  And they sure responded this week.

They responded along with hundreds of others throughout the world.  People were in trouble.  Children.  The creme de la creme assembled, putting together their skills and expertise.  There were no egos, no nationalities.  Just loving people gathered to save thirteen people.

Loving kindness is a Buddhist tradition. It was surely practiced this week.  Even the military fed the news folks, a rarity these days, along with the myriad of divers, emergency crews, people from all over the world.  There was no thought to money or ancestry.  They came to help.  They had a mission.

There was also another man who made a promise.  He died during a flash flood putting out supply tanks.  He was a highly skilled diver, athlete and all around loving young man.

In loving memory. 💕

"We will get the kids out."

- Saman Kunan, former navy Seal diver, who died while saving others