"Today's lesson is to recognize the objects "Ben suggested to the group of twelve children who followed him quizzically along the path from the hut used as a classroom led to a small clearing and fresh. The grass was lush due to moisture, soft and fragrant. The trees spread their branches to the bank of small stream that flows quietly, offering a cool shaded area. I boldly colored flowers grew and in so many shades of color that Ben was not even sure you know how to name them all.
"Here we are" ruled spreading his arms for the post chosen.
The children looked around then looked at him puzzled.
One of the biggest doubts became the spokesman of the group "We already know this place and know the names of objects, there is no need to recognize"
"Really? "Ben asked with a smirk.
The boy nodded vigorously.
"Do you think you might recognize even with closed eyes?"
The child's mouth curled puzzled "With closed eyes?"
Ben nodded, "Come, sit down"
whole group walked in and took Ben Seated cross-legged on the grass.
"We recognize the objects that surround us because we see them and give them a name. But this sometimes means not really feel the nature "
The twelve pairs of eyes hazelnut widened even more. Younger children did not understand a single word, the older ones, although they knew he could not grasp the meaning of that statement.
Ben laughed and shook his head "You are right you can not explain. Better if we start the lesson. With practice you will understand what I mean. "
He stood up and pulled the strap that I had brought with him a green handkerchief
"Long Xi, you begin, come," he suggested.
The boy stood up and joined him hesitant. Ben covered his eyes with his handkerchief and made him sit back down, then turned to the other.
"Now each of you take something, anything and in turn handed it to Long Xi which will recognize it without seeing it, just touched, or smelled"
"But this is a game! "exploded the cheerful little girl lame. What Ben had carried on his shoulders to lead to clear.
"Really?" Ben asked feigning surprise.
She nodded: "It is a lesson is a game," insisted happy.
"Maybe you're right" granted Ben "From start"
Children scattered happy to return after a few moments, each with something in hand. Ben nodded "yes" with his head to one of them, silently approached and held out to XI Long hands cupped under his nose.
"Can I touch it?" Asked the child.
"No Long Xi this thing is to smell"
"Flowers" said the boy groped without even clever.
"No it is not a flower. Long Xi sniffs "it urged Ben
The child approached the nose on a blind can not hear anything"
"It is not true. Try again, sniffing quietly and take all the time you want "
Long Xi pledged his nose and slowly leaned closer to the outstretched hands of comrade and inhaled more deeply," What good smell, "he said in a whisper. Ben smiled.
"I am ... ..."
Ben narrowed his eyes.
"I'm berries. The berries of the passion flower "
"Bravo" shouted in unison their friends.
Long Xi smiled enthusiastic "Another thing the"
Ben motioned to a girl to approach. The little fellow gave it to a twig.
"You can touch" gave Ben.
Xi Long grabbed the branch and discounted air said, "It 's a branch
Yes but what tree? "asked Ben.
Xi Long nosed without Ben would provide further guidance. He felt his nose filled with an intense, sweet and crisp at the same time. He had already heard that perfume, I felt all day but had never asked where it came from. He knew, however, to know him, I felt ... when ... when ... ... yes! When he returned to the cabin where he lived before burning. Before crossing the threshold of the house felt that scent. Maybe it was the tree that soared just a few meters from the driveway? Surely you '
"It 's a branch of Cecropia"
"Bravo!" Exploded Ben sincerely enthusiastic.
The child gave him a radiant smile and deep.
continued for another half hour in this fashion, alternating between those who had and who had to identify objects by touch or smell, including laughter, applause and "noooo" disappointed and merry when one of them took huge blunders.
"Well, Now lean back on their feet, "Ben ordered off the ground, immediately followed by the children," Now you must promise that you will be all eyes closed, I understood. We will do some things without looking and you have to describe what you hear "
explained in basic English words interspersed with some of the children belonged to their mother tongue.
The small group did so immediately and squinting.
"Take her hand and slowly you come with me"
walked slowly, with bare feet.
"What do you hear?"
After a moment of awkward silence one of them said, "The sofficiume"
"What," asked Ben opening his eyes and smile. The boy who spoke she kept her eyes closed, concentrate "The sofficiume underfoot, the grass"
Ben smiled and nodded, "Right" granted without correct it. It was not important to the lexicon was important perception.
"The fresh sofficiume" said a girl. Ben closed his eyes and inhaled deeply through your nose.
"Fresh is here because the grass in the shade and does not dry as that of the street" notes that the third child.
Ben cautiously led them to the bank of the stream.
"Ahhhh water," they shouted in chorus, children opening our eyes
"Shhhh. Close your eyes and feel the water on your feet "
" That's great, "said the lame girl dreamily. Ben smiled again. How many times had set foot in the water? And how many times they had really felt the warm and relaxing massage?
He breathed again, feeling it just like children. He opened his eyes only to identify which area was clear of the sun and led the gay group, which continued respect to the delivery to keep your eyes closed, in that piece of grass.
"Now lie on his stomach on the" children obey "quiet breathing as if you were to fall asleep"
The children obeyed.
"What do you hear?"
"The sun," said one of them.
"No, not the sun, the heat of the sun" corrected Xi Long
"But what burns or sweating, the ... ... ..."
"Warmth" Ben came to him on his own skin while enjoying the same feeling.
"I also feel the fragrance of flowers" ruled a child, "And I also the grass, the grass smells," added a second.
"And you hear the sound of the brook"
"And the birds that sing!"
"sofficiume And the grass in the back!"
Ben smiled and opened his eyes. Without that children did not know it went to get his shoulder and took out twelve cubes.
"Now, still without opening his eyes, sit" the children obeyed "I'll give you a hand in everything, to everyone. Fear not no joke, so do not you smell it. When I put it away in the mouth "
Children feel the smooth cubes that had gathered in his hands.
"Way" whispered Ben, and children, demonstrating absolute confidence in man, they opened their mouths and I rolled into cubes.
Ben looked at them with a slight smile became aware that fresh and excited when the expression of each of them, while there was amazed and enthusiastic then
"It 's chocolate! !! "exploded in choir with a smile and brown teeth and tongues.
"Yes chocolate is" confirmed Ben happy.
Children laughed happy by the unexpected, the rare gift, and enjoy all the explosion of sweetness and contentment that this simple little piece of food she could give.
"Ok, now you can open your eyes"
"What a great game Ben" Long Xi smiled enthusiastically.
Ben pretended to be surprised, "I said it was a lesson not a game"
They laughed thinking to take them around and the man crouched down in front of them "What did you learn from this ... . game? "
Children became suddenly serious. Then it was really a lesson? They would have to be careful rather than enjoy the game?
Ben understood their concerns and smiled "You learned that you are part of this world," says serious but sweet look "You have around you all you need to be happy. You have the sun, the scent of flowers, water, grass ... sofficiume "
" And the chocolate! "Escalmò the lame girl and Ben laughed," And the chocolate, right "
" lascetevi not convince anyone that it is necessary to be rich to be happy. He who walks always and only with the shoes will never hear the grass sofficiume, who live in homes with windows permanently closed and use air Conditioning will never hear the scent of cecropia, and yes, it is true that there are children who eat the chocolate every day unlike you. But I do not really taste like you today. The child is important to look around and see the wonder of it all, "Ben made a gesture toward the clearing," What is here for you. 're Part like all other children of the world. Even the most affluent, healthier. In this world no one can ever hunt or marginalized because it is only here for you if you only learn to feel any astonishment. You do not need other "
Children looked at him with open mouths and eyes enchanted and Ben found himself smiling softly to their eyes and felt my eyes get wet with its own words.
"When you are sad," he continued in a trembling voice, "close your eyes and feel the smells, hear the sound of water, lie on the grass in the sun. Do not think of anything. And mangiatevi a nice piece of chocolate! "
Children laughed happily.
The girl stood up lame effort to help spontaneously from the largest of the group and headed towards Ben. The man held out a hand to her helping her get
"Do you have another piece?" He asked.
"No, Nua-Ky. I only have two more, I have for you all "
" It's not for me "
Ben frowned and took another cube of chocolate from the bag, handing it the child.
"You have not eaten," she said.
Ben shook his head as if to refuse but he showed himself determined Nua-Ky.
"Close your eyes," she ordered with an air of peremptory.
Ben obeyed "Now open your mouth."
The man narrowed his mouth almost shyly, as if afraid of not being able to perceive the sweet taste of chocolate. He was afraid of hearing all the bitterness that had permeated the taste of anything from several months to that part.
"Keep your eyes closed and slowly suck, not chew it," ordered the baby is well obeyed.
In her mouth sprang a sweet and bitter at the same time. But it was not the bitterness of the venom was the bitterness of the cocoa. That miracle is the chocolate that combines sweet and sour giving a unique taste.
Ben sighed and felt making the scent of cocoa, from the throat went back up to his nose. He smiled, swallowed and opened his eyes to find the twelve children who looked hopeful.
"How?" Said Ky-Nua.
Ben smiled and shook his head "very good"
"Now how do you feel?" Urged the Xi-Long
He felt the eyes glaze over and moved his way to a smile on his face strength "Happy" yelled opening their arms and welcoming all the children who jumped on him throwing him were lying on the grass and laughing with him.
Daphne from behind the trunk of the mangroves where, who had seen them lying in the sun, he had seen without being seen, she smiled, wiping a tear.
"Circle of Life" - Elton John (original version)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8ZnCT14nRc
'The circle of life' - Italy (Italian version)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v = rsL15hjSELM
*****
Debbie greedily bit into the sandwich and licked his finger from the sauce, thanks to the pressure of teeth, had slipped out from the edges of the bread.
"Hum" and then began going chewing "A September so it was not seen for years," he said wiping his mouth with a napkin and biting into a second bite of bread.
"Brian says that before or after this chair picnic will collapse under my weight, but I use it for twenty years and is still beautiful intact. Or is it strong or you are not that strong I, "laughed the happy woman turns to his interlocutor.
unscrewed the cap of Coca-Cola Light, the only concession granted the concept of power in own-calorie diet, and took a long sip.
"Tomorrow we start all of New York. A good company but Sunshine deserves it. The exhibition this year at Casey Kaplam promises to be an event in New York that day, and we obviously need to be there. I really hope it is an event seen how long it has dedicated to those pictures. All too actually! E 'in New York for a week to arrange everything. Do not really know how to do. In twenty days he designed, made graphics, painting "sneered smart" Judging from his appearance it seems I have spent whole days to get laid, but from the look of Brian instead we understand that it is not so, "he concluded, shaking his head and laughed heartily.
bit into another mouthful and shrugged, "He, I say Brian, eh! Poses as annoyed and almost annoyed by these ongoing commitments Sunshine but I do not enchants. E 'proud of him than ever, we see from the eyes and the fact that he never saw Brian Kinney playing the role of the prince consort and take a step backwards compared to the king of the night, leaving him all honor and glory, as will instead tomorrow night at the show. Of course Justin will then remain in New York to do a painting and then going to Chicago, "said the woman bending her mouth in a grimace of disapproval" on this right Brian. It looks like a spinning top gone crazy. Not that Brian has told me, eh! But I know that boy since he was fourteen years old and less talk more I understand what you feel. And 'perhaps the most accomplished of all my guys, but I think there is still something unresolved within him. Boh "said sincerely doubt enjoying a new drink coca cola" For me, this stuff will not gain weight but to be so good, however, has something inside that causes cancer, "mused looking at the silver label" Anyway ... "he went into his mouth the last bite of sandwich and smiling at his partner" Michael is increasingly man, "he said with a nostalgic smile.
"He managed to put the pain behind and this now leaves only found out as hard as what he went through has left him. It is no longer my baby. Of course every now and then trim some slap whatever because we know that a mother remains a mother even if the child became a man. But now it is peaceful, that the serenity to overcome obstacles that seemed insurmountable. He learned his lesson, "he said, softening his voice and smile touched" and he knows that Ben is making his path. Do not tell me almost nothing about him and I wonder why are not un'impicciona, but I see Michael as calm, relaxed, in addition to going to poke his nose into his mail when I go to her house to bring some 'spending & rdquo ; chuckled smart women "and so I know! I know that Ben is finding its way and you can not understand how this fills me with joy. I also got slapped him sometimes, but it was so painful expression on his face that dead ... ... ... "Debbie stopped sighing at the memory" But he was strong. E 'strong and I know she is making in its own way, in his day, but we are doing "drank the last sip of the drink and put it away neatly inside the plastic bag woven white and blue. He leaned his face in the warm sun of September, eyes closed, hands folded in her lap.
"The other they are always" taken with a smile "Ted is an AD but is an accountant at heart. But he has grown and do not know how. I also think if the dark period of her I feel a knot in my stomach that makes me go through the sandwich but it is really past. He too was fortified, has self-confidence and esteem. Thanks to Blake, to himself and ... ... "she threw her head to one side" ... even Brian's useless to hide. Then Emmett "smiles persuaded the woman to nominate only the boy and reinstating eye 'and' back to be our fabulous Emmett. Ah! Not sure what is organizing, "he chuckled with an accomplice to" a gathering of you for all of us. Not everyone knows yet but I do. And his mission is to convince Brian to participate, "information should suddenly becoming serious.
"They say that on 21 December this year there will be the end of the world. Well I've never believed it, but if Brian will be at the rally, I will begin to make a serious plan for everything that I would like to do in life in two months that separate me from death. The girls are getting them. For better or for worse. And the kids are wonderful. All three. Gus is getting testy as a teenager and a woman in menopause, "Debbie giggled, shaking her head" But Mel, Lindsay, Justin and Brian are good parents. The help and accompany him in this terrible period of life. You know that now calls Sunshine, Daddy? "Escalmò smiling happily" Scarlett is a treasure. Determined as his two dads. He says he will become the first New York City Ballet dancer and I, knowing the stubbornness and the determination of Brian and Justin, she has it all, I bet that it will become real. And then there's Jenny, "the woman's face bent into a smile brighter than that, however unconsciously Hot reserved Gus and Scarlett" and naive as a child and his father suffer the same way. But fortune has two: to have Mel as a mom and grandma as me! We had to help a lot in these months, because you know, Michael and Ben .... "
He paused, sighing with look sad" but now is okay or at least we are going. I am sure that at the end of October will be Michael and Ben to take her to Disneyland. Will all three together, I'm sure. "
convinced nodded to herself then looked at his watch "I have to go" snorted "Since I no longer use my red wig but I am made hair grow, and Li Ting of I signed my blond sentence having to suffer the hairdresser every three weeks, "snorted restless
" Everyone says that they are very more beautiful that way, I have more class. Well, I think it's just a way to tell me that at my age it was time to put my head straight in the literal sense of the term "Debbie laughed at his own pun," I imagine that Brian is so classy urged to take a picture with me, that keeps hanging in his office in Kinnetik "she stopped and stared at a horizon of immense green lawn.
"If I think of all that passed, all in their life" proclaimed to do with nostalgia, "and if I think that despite all they are all still here. To fight, to fight, to never give up, to send their children to their strength, well ... "he smiled, rising from his chair and putting her hands on her hips ... I'm proud of them. I look at them and think how much I loved it. All. "
smiled, looking down that licked "Just as I was so proud of you right away, since I've known. And I never ceased to be, ever. And how much I loved you too "he shrugged, leaving scroll through a tear on the cheek "and I loved how all of them, maybe something more. Sometimes I wish I were still here, "whispered the woman with a broken voice and a nostalgic smile on his face" but I know you're there, you've been there and you're there. And I know because otherwise .... Some things can not be accommodated if there had never been an angel's hand resting on the shoulder of Michael, Ben, my children. And all of us "
The woman bent down before the grave and looked at the photo, smiling," Thanks for everything my darling. And please, do not give up right now eh! In the words of St. Augustine continues to keep your eyes full of glory in our filled with tears, "she smiled dryly from the nose while breathing in fresh tears flowed from her cheek.
"You are my treasure our guide, our guardian angel," he said before bring his fingers to his lips, kiss them and place them on the picture of Hunter, who never seemed like the tomb of a saint .
It was Jenny saying "We have this."
showing him with his eyes staring something that made him smile a smile surprised, joyful, alive.
The snapshot of a moment of joy in living, fixed in time for eternity
"Jesus To A Child - George Michael
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