We are in the middle of making a community playing area out of a unwanted unused garbage area.
The locals call it Subangan, which means where the rivers meet the ocean. The dynamics of this are amazing in how one activity can help the kids and one can cause tons of problems. We have been working on this for about three years now and it is always changing. Why? Because the storms change the beach and we get to move everything, and children change, and we add new ideas, and phase out the old. Many times new opportunities come with it. It is easy to get caught up in it making it nice and fun, then miss out on the heart of it all, and that is the children. Slow down, go to one knee, and dive into their eyes and connect with their heart. The other stuff is important, but it won't last forever, but these kids will.
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