Page 72 - Hmmm M the Humdinger Flipbook for HARP Sept 27 2020

see what was going to happen to M next. I also loved the sound it

made when the page turned.

I’m a nurse and I kept thinking about M’s mom and dad and

their trips to all of the specialists… and how we (in healthcare)

always start a file. It moved M to the role of pediatric patient.

They are such good parents to try to better understand their little

daughter. Although they are trying to protect her, I kept hoping

they would celebrate her more… instead of trying to see what was

wrong and in need of fixing … to name and champion her special

and magnificent gift. Saying this … I did love the Wise Woman.

She held the space and saw the gift! Each of us needs a Wise

Woman. As I think about it, I hope (humbly) that to someone else,

I might be their Wise Woman… that I hold the space for them and

that I see their gifts… and that I name them.

I felt a little sadness at the end because M turned into a

natural sound (although beautiful). I wanted her to be more. I

wanted her to teach others to hum and to celebrate being gifted. I

suspect that if I read the book many times… knowing the ending,

that I would not feel this sadness… I would celebrate that she was

a gift of nature in human-form for a brief while.