Not speaking. Not looking at squirrels. Not munching on coconut candy...

"Ryan Reilly was clearing off the window table at the cafe when he saw them: the two grandmothers standing smack in the middle of the park's big grassy area. The only difference was, they were holding umbrellas instead of wearing sun hats.

"Well, that would have been the only difference, if it weren't for the other one. This time, standing with the grandmothers were Erma Beans, Madeline Swivet, Leslie Plunkett and his very own mother!"

I was startled awake at 5:50 this morning by the loudest, longest thunder roll I've ever heard. Then the rain. Gobs and buckets and sheets and torrents of rain! WAY too much rain to expect grandmothers to show up in Lithia Park's big grassy area to save the world. And yet they did. Erma, Madeline, Leslie and Mrs. Reilly were there, with big smiles and big umbrellas. The exact number as in the story. The exact weather conditions. The exact umbrellas. And there we stood. Grateful and amazed.

An elementary school principal from Santa Rosa, CA who just returned from Lebanon, Israel and Jordan wired flowers addressed to the grandmothers in Lithia Park. Friends in other towns are standing at 7:30. I had 51 emails from listeners who heard the New Dimensions interview (www.newdimensions.org). More to come.