Welcome baby

Today my grandson was born. He is my second grandchild, and joins his sister, now two. They are both beautiful. My daughter and her husband are beginning a stage of life that is amazing and wonderful. I look back on when I was this age, and my children were still all in the nest and we were the center of each other's universes. It was so much FUN. And i knew exactly who I was and why I was alive.

I wish for my daughter the happiness and completeness that a family can bring. I wish for her to enjoy it, to breathe it, to savor it. I wish for her to have FUN, and to live IN every moment she gets with them.

swimming to the surface

I see it up there,
From down in the dark.
Down in the depths.
I see the filtered radiance
Of the daylight above,
The sky above,
And the freedom, just strokes away.
I am tired.
Gravity pulls.
I am tired.
My strength wanes.
I'm tired.
Climb, swim, fly.
I see it. Up there.