A Day on the Land: Kids Unplugged

by Amanda

Saturday, July 9 finally came after a weeklong heat wave that toasted everything in sight. At last, it was time for Kids Unplugged, our much anticipated summer event for families, and here was some nice, cool fog!

During the treasure hunt

I was so excited as I got my son Cisco and his best friend Anthony ready to go down to the ranch to meet our guests, and yet I also felt very calm and focused. This combination of feelings was completely foreign to me! I’m often both excited and anxious, but my butterflies were fluttering off somewhere else that morning as the boys and I drove down the driveway to the Lodge.

Kara speaking about her Red-Tailed hawk, "Sunshine"

Since that spectacular day, when my dream of a beautiful family day at Sunburst came true, I’ve wondered about the source of that strange and wonderful feeling of one-pointed calm. Was it purely the product of months of meetings, note-taking, list-making, and delegating? I’ve always been a good preparer and planner. I mean, I have lists of my lists! (Does anyone else do that?)

Kids Unplugged exceeded even my high expectations. It was one of the high points of my life, and when I look back someday I know it will be one of the things I’m most proud of. What I’ve come to understand since Kids Unplugged unfolded is that Spirit was strongly involved that day. Whatever you want to call it—flow, Love, guardian angels, God, Source—something was there with us that day that caused everything to happen just right. Yes, our preparations were important, and I see now that this energy was also there during our meetings and our work as individuals on the different parts of the day.

Sunburst is an incredible place. I’ve never had the privilege of working with such tuned-in people—people who know how to channel divine love and broadcast it out again to the world in such a potent and yet gentle way.

The success of Kids Unplugged, I’m convinced, stemmed from the love that lives here at Sunburst and everywhere that Spirit is welcomed and cultivated. When we can do our work and then step aside and let Source run the whole she-bang, that’s when miracles happen. That’s where the magic is.