so as you see in the centerpiece
we have a beautifully arranged flower
and if we can all look at it we can see
that the flowers are very fresh
very beautiful this afternoon we will
only
do one thing that is to water the flower
in our child we know that when we water
the flower in our child
we're also watering our own flower
because
as parents we carry our children
and we know that our son
or our daughter is our continuation
and everything they are is a beautiful
continuation of us
so every day if we can learn to water
our flour the flour of our child
we're actually watering our own flour
and we know how to
keep our freshness and we know that our
children here
are the most beautiful flower in our
lives
we will join our palms and bow
and we will walk up to the center and
pick up the
water a flower vase and take it back to
our seat
and we can place it in front of our
child
and we would look into our child's eyes
breathe three times
and really appreciate your child by
saying
the things that you appreciate in him or
her you can look at all the good things
that he or she has done not just for you
as parents but maybe with other people
or other friends that you have observed
so this practice is very beautiful
simple but yet deep
and i find many parents enjoy this
practice a lot
and those children who feel inspired
after your mom or your dad has water
your flour
if you want you can also water your
parent's flour
because if you guys know how to water
each other's flour
imagine what a beautiful family you have
so we'll listen to one side of the bell
so everybody can
come back to their breathing
and those who are ready you may like to
join your palms
and begin your practice
i'm so proud of you for this week you've
made friends so easy
you've shown me parts of your wonderful
character which is your
friend bringing this to everyone but i
want you to know that i appreciate the
fact that you're you and i never want
you to change
because you're wonderful just thank you
i want to say to you around
and i think i think you both know
because i
tell you that every day
and every night you didn't know about
dignathan as such but i just
wanted to come and be here and the two
of you said
there's no way you're going anywhere
without us
so just want you both to know that i
love you
i love you
the thing that you glue us together with
the thing that you wrap around us always
is i think your freedom you always bring
new things into our family
you always give us reasons to hope
and you give us a whole expanse of
lovely things that we can look forward
to
and never was freedom more
um physical than it is with you
because i look at your dirty knees and
then look at your dirty toes
and then look at your lovely dirty face
and i know
that you live a free life i always want
you
to have dirty knees
because it shows that you are being
freedom to your life and other people's
lives you wake up in the morning and
you're
ready to go you've got lots of energy
and you love to be active and you love
to be doing things
you're kind of very much of a leader but
you're also very
um sensitive to other people
it was since ted was born and she was a
little and then you're in
diapers you took you to the beaches
the ponds and the gorges and the
mountains and spent so much time
and you loved picking things like shows
or these
little locks and we have tons of them at
home and
you still like like i do so you've been
such a
joy to our family not only for me
and your mom but for the grandparents
and your cousins and your aunts everyone
loves you because you have such a joyful
happy presence in our family so thank
you for being our family
and i thought that i wanted to
experience the love
the only you experience when you have a
child but i didn't realize you were also
going to be my teacher
and that you have taught me so much
about the joy of the present moment
and about what love really means and i'm
so grateful to you
this plum is um partly
ripe partly
dark red and it's partly
green um
it represents you the green
on the right part represents the child
in you that i love so much
very caring and carefree
loving trusting
and the right part
of christmas and the way you have
developed
during the last year i'm just amazed to
see all the
the talents you show sports
acting school work
yesterday you you started reading the
announcement
in the evening in english and i didn't
even know that you could
read english i was amazed
and i'm really happy to see
the way you
you help us take care of your little
sisters
you're so loving towards them
he's just a great boy i love you very
much
you have the biggest heart
and when ty was talking about
intervening the other day
which i know you didn't get but you
didn't need to because you already know
it
i thought of you because you innately
understand
that everything is interconnected and
you
i've the second thing i got you was this
necklace
which says for those who can't read it
be still and no
because when you were playing on the
playground the other day in spain
and the other children came and you came
to me
i said are you upset that they took the
swing away from me to know mommy
i just needed to move on because i
needed my peace
and um
and also how you when
just a little girl at school and when
maggie hits you
and i told you defend yourself you did
that for about a week
and then one day you came home and you
said i'm not going to hit her anymore
and i said why not because she's still
hitting you and she said oh yeah she
gets me every day
and i said well why aren't you here and
you said because i'm not a person
thank you for your beautiful practice
this is one of my most nourishing time i
have
with the children's program and i want
to thank each and one of you for being
here
i want to thank the parents for bringing
your child here and sharing them with us
because whenever we get a chance to
to play with your children and be with
them
our seeds of the child within us also
comes up
and we feel like 10 years younger
and they also teach us a very good
lesson and that's patience at least
speaking for me and i've learned a lot
from each one of your child
they plant really good seats in us as
well
and together they all have created a
very
nice and safe environment here
and we all hope that you will bring this
practice home with you
continue to plant good seeds in yourself
and in your child
you