in the moment

do you know what the name of the medical tool that can only be used by your left hand?

i'm curious on what it is, why it is so. please tell me.

today i experience a very pure moment.

i was listening to the author Ian Brown on CBC radio. "The Boy in the Moon" is about his disable son and his journey and realizations.

Walker Brown is his son that was born with CFC or cardiofacio-cutaneous syndrome; CFC is a genetic mutation that affects about 100 people worldwide. CFC is so rare it’s called “an orphan syndrome” because, as Brown explains, “it seems to come from nowhere.”

“Sometimes watching Walker is like looking at the moon,” writes Brown by way of introducing his son in his opening chapter. “You see the face of the man in the moon, yet you know there’s actually no man there.”

It’s a terrible conclusion to have to reach. But then Brown goes on: “(I)f Walker is so insubstantial, why does he feel so important? What is he trying to show me? All I really want to know is what goes on inside his off-shaped head, in his jumped-up heart. But every time I ask, he somehow persuades me to look into my own.”

I was touched by his incredible love and humanity. We are all so caught up with the ugliness of world events, the shallow and superficialness of daily news and Hollywood mimicry; i forget sometimes that there are many many amazing, genuine, intelligent and beautiful compassionate people.

we will always be searching for why certain things happen, but there is joy and bliss to the most mundane of human experiences.