At the Creek

we went yesterday and I'll go today too

Ahava and our neighbors and their visitors

from Texas all went to the creek yesterday.

Ahava came with me. You’d better get Grandpa

she said when she got into the car.

You don’t drive a car. Not true I said and she

buckled her seatbelt with a certain amount of disbelief.

I do drive more or less and the creek is close by

and when we got there she immediately walked

to another family in the water with their five children

and I walked over to make sure it was ok for her

to be with them we are in the country where people

are very different from one another some see strangers

as unwelcome intruders some see strangers as friends

and I spoke to the father who smiled and said

they were political refugees from Myanmar living nearby

and of course Ahava could play with them.