Cindy is a HR Director in her county in Pennsylvania. She had to lay off another 22 people this week. When she got the chance to attend a conference in Phoenix, she signed Kevin out of school and jumped on it!
Kids just want to know the adults enjoy their company. We have stacks of research that says they just want to be "with" their parents. Kevin hugged on his mother and loved her all day. They were refreshing.
They got the "special visit" to the airport overlook in Sedona, one of the spiritual "vortexes".
Kevin thinks he took the right picture of his mother, but I really took the one that shows how they enjoy each other. See me in the picture?
At Indian Garden, I ordered their lunch and tried to talk Kevin into a "scorpion lollipop", but he wasn't ready for that adventure.By the time we got to the volcanoes in northern AZ, Kevin explained that he learned in his earth science class that volcanoes with more silica in them produce bigger explosions...... . Whatever - the point is he was conversing with adults who enjoyed having him. She sat next to me and he was behind me.
We stopped and collected lava rocks for his science class.
On the Navajo Res., I gave them an extra stop at the overlook of the Little Colorado River, an 800 foot gorge:
Here Cindy thought she was getting the real picture, but it was I who got the real picture!
A single mom and a teenage boy who love one another. There's hope.
They ended the day with a helicopter ride over Grand Canyon. She said she's terrified of heights, but had to overcome herself for Kevin. He sat in the front seat.
You're doing good, Cindy, you go girl! Goodbye , Kevin, my young friend. Come back to Grand Canyon someday with children you love - and remember me.
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