When I interviewed at Hope the woman said that if I wanted to do couples I would always be full. The couples waitlist is the one they can never get under control. She said I would need to get certified. This maybe wasn’t the right approach but I tried to tell her that I didn’t really think I would need to, that I’ve been reading about Gottman and EFT and who knows what for years and years. I feel like I would know what I’m doing.

But I would get certified if I needed to. I haven’t made much more progress yet with my other somatic practitioner certification other than to schedule my second session with my partner. I still need to make my care plan but there were other things this week that took priority since the session is next week. I have my program exit exam tomorrow. I meal planned and printed out recipes for our annual family Thanksgiving weekend.

My son and I walked down to the lake before starting geography. I told him that I found the sun and water to be healing. He asked what I meant and I don’t remember what I said. We noted the ongoing low water levels and walked on dry ground where we would normally put in boats. He bent down and started picking up clams, little creatures whose presence has only become more known over the past year or two with kids.

They notice these clams and the older ones say, “Where are these coming from? We’ve never seen these here before.” There were piles of clams that were open with nothing inside. And then there were many that still were partly buried or were exposed but still closed. I sat on the dock and without a word he picked the up and threw them back into the water. Before long I too was stooped down, pointing out to him the clams I saw.

I wasn’t too keep on touching them. I told him this reminded me of a poem and later on our way see Elianna I had him read it. We walked back up and labeled islands in the South Pacific. How many years of looking at globes and I had no idea this many islands existed somewhere over on that side. The Challenger Deep is the deepest part in all the world reaching approximately four miles deeper than the average ocean bed depths.