Babies Having Babies
My friends Sara and Brian welcomed their firstborn on Sunday, Luke Romain. Welcome Luke! We are so glad you are here!
I remember how five years ago I was invited to 7 weddings and everybody said, "You're at that time in life where everybody gets married." Now, I am at the time of life when everybody is getting married AND having babies. In the group of friends that I have known since early childhood, Sara included, this is baby number four and we have another one coming in August.
In December I came out to San Francisco and attended Sara and Brian's wedding and this wild feeling came over me that was part overwhelming love and emotion and part overwhelming fear of time passing. I looked at the glowing face of my friend Sara, a woman I have known since we were five years old--a woman who ran as the popular choice for president in our mock election of 1984; a woman who did win homecoming queen in 1989; a woman who has lived in Russia (with love), and who is an eternal student of life--and I thought: THIS IS IT. All those thoughts of "I wonder what it will be like when we grow up" are happening. Right now. What will become of us is becoming of us right now.
At the reception I sat talking with my friend Kirstin with her newborn son, curled against her like a little snail shell. She said, "We were at dinner last night and I looked and saw Tom [her husband] and Griffin [her older boy] and Duncan [the new babe], and I thought, this is my family. How cool is that?" How COOL INDEED. This is Kirstin's FAMILY--the one she wanted and dreamed up. This is HER LIFE.
And I felt so small. I felt like a blip on the screen. I felt that human life is just SO FRIGGN short in the wide and expansive horizon of time. This is it. I am meeting my oldest friends' children. I am meeting the next wave--the up and comers of time.
Luke, your mama is one of those people who just kind of glowed from day one. I know you do too. It comes in the genes. I can't wait to meet you.
I remember how five years ago I was invited to 7 weddings and everybody said, "You're at that time in life where everybody gets married." Now, I am at the time of life when everybody is getting married AND having babies. In the group of friends that I have known since early childhood, Sara included, this is baby number four and we have another one coming in August.
In December I came out to San Francisco and attended Sara and Brian's wedding and this wild feeling came over me that was part overwhelming love and emotion and part overwhelming fear of time passing. I looked at the glowing face of my friend Sara, a woman I have known since we were five years old--a woman who ran as the popular choice for president in our mock election of 1984; a woman who did win homecoming queen in 1989; a woman who has lived in Russia (with love), and who is an eternal student of life--and I thought: THIS IS IT. All those thoughts of "I wonder what it will be like when we grow up" are happening. Right now. What will become of us is becoming of us right now.
At the reception I sat talking with my friend Kirstin with her newborn son, curled against her like a little snail shell. She said, "We were at dinner last night and I looked and saw Tom [her husband] and Griffin [her older boy] and Duncan [the new babe], and I thought, this is my family. How cool is that?" How COOL INDEED. This is Kirstin's FAMILY--the one she wanted and dreamed up. This is HER LIFE.
And I felt so small. I felt like a blip on the screen. I felt that human life is just SO FRIGGN short in the wide and expansive horizon of time. This is it. I am meeting my oldest friends' children. I am meeting the next wave--the up and comers of time.
Luke, your mama is one of those people who just kind of glowed from day one. I know you do too. It comes in the genes. I can't wait to meet you.
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