The mysterious decline of lima beans

Gosh, time just sizzles onward. It's nearly Thanksgiving. I'm feeling thankful alright. For a lot of things in my life. But I was trying to remember to log in and note an event that was a bright spot recently. A child- can't remember her age but it was very young- had wandered away from her own house while her mother was preoccupied briefly and had fallen into a neighbor's pool. And 'drowned'. When discovered emergency procedures were taken and she was driven to the hospital. To no avail. Quite sometime later a detective team was to examine the child to review the accidental death. As detective number one was checking the child, her chest heaved. At first he thought it was a post mortem auto response of the body. But in fact it became clear very quickly that the child was reviving. And is now in the hospital recovering. What a great story- painful and wonderful both. But the thing that brings me to a sense of wonder is that this moment in human existence seems inexplicable to all the experts. The girl was 'dead' and dead too long to come back. Still, she did. A miracle of sorts- and an affirmation that we know way too little to be cynical about our world or to believe that we should not imagine broader frontiers and more wondrous possibilities. I felt good reading this story.