We have much to learn from you. There is a message in your eyes and in your reach we once knew but have lost. That first engagement where everything is astonishing. Is it innocence or first knowledge, a knowing long forgotten by us we long to recover? Already you have given us a glimpse of where we began.
We have tried to prepare a garden for you with hanging fruit, petals and scents, with turtles and turtledoves and winding paths but we also urge you to taste what is forbidden and find your own way off the beaten.
Your name alone promises
one-of-a-kindness. There will be hills to climb, small rises and falls with
vantage points never seen before. You shall discover the night sky on your own
to reconfigure and commune with the stars. You shall open doors, create new
windows, listen to flowers and see through what we thought was opaque.
You have been seeded by shouts of joy and harvested with pumpkins in a season of love and a spectrum of foliage. Three generations of arms receive you... Mom and Dad and theirs, grand and great-grand .....and I, your step, who sheds those adjectives great and grand. In time I hope to change the step to step-less at no remove, to watch you flower even in this imperfect world we have bequeathed.
Norm
ReplyDeleteThat was absolutely beautiful. I'm still helping with our friend"s darling baby girl and in this you expresses so beautifully some of my own thoughts for which I can't find the words
Thank you
Thank you. I was dictation from my heart.
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