Some silences can be very loud.
I worked on the Navajo (Diné) Nation in Arizona from 1999 until 2006, before I moved back to Vermont. During that time, I worked as a counselor at the Little Singer Community School, which served students in preschool to eighth grade.
The Diné people tend to be quiet and very understated. Observing the children, I experienced some deeply moving expressions of compassion, which led me to an understanding of how many such acts, brought to the world by our youngest ones, often go unnoticed.
I ran into one of these early one morning in the hour when the buses would arrive at the school and the children would head to the cafeteria for breakfast, where they probably do most of their good eating.
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