Little baby Fletcher is just getting cuter and cuter, more alert, and bigger and bigger each day. He has gain more than 2 pounds in the last few weeks and he is not yet even one month old (or young?)! I just love sitting and holding him. It is so peaceful and makes me feel so centered.
Babies are a good and wonderful thing after all. They are a blessing and a hope for the future. Here are some quotes that echo my thoughts about babies.
One of my favorites is from the great poet of the prairies, Carl Sandburg: “A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.”
Don Herold, a humorist from the 20th Century said: “Babies are such a nice way to start people”
And that wonderful, sometimes curmudgeon Mark Twain adds: “A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother.”
James Matthew Barrie, that eternal boy playright, said: "When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. And now when every new baby is born its first laugh becomes a fairy. So there ought to be"
Van Gogh was also a wonderful painter with words. "If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it. I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle."
And I will close with words of wisdom from one of my all time favorite writers, Anne Lamott:
"Honey, you'll never draw another calm breath as long as you live. That blissful amniotic unconcerned state of people without children is a thing of the past."
