Hello Fall!

It's probably just a tease, as it's still a little early for our fall weather, but I'll take what we get.  What an awesome Friday in Boston.   Brisk air, zero humidity, perfect sweater weather.   There is nothing like the fall in New England.  Welcome!

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9+ months

If I could bottle this age up and hold on to it forever, I just might.  You are a little over 9 months and growing right before our eyes.  This age is amazing....  You are full of so many smiles and you love to babble.  If you hold on to our fingers you pull yourself up ---- and look like a mini-gymnast when you do it --- legs straight, posture perfect then you smile because you are as proud of yourself as we are of you.   Your favorite songs are still Elmo Song and the Galinha Pintadina, a Brazilian series we watch on youtube.   You and I still sing "You've got the whole world in your hands" and without a doubt you recognize it and seem at peace when I sing it.  Most nights still end with "You are my sunshine".  I hope that song always reminds us both of these special moments together.

My sweet Joseph.  You are the most pure and amazing gift.  Your skin is so soft, your smiles come so easy.   Time waits for nobody so I write here and take pictures that I hope will bring me back to some clouded memory of these wonderful days for our family.   Today, like most days, you woke first and we got you and brought you to bed with us.  You make us laugh and we give you hugs and my hope, more than anything else, is you feel how loved you are and how happy you make us.   Our son, our boy.

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Something to ponder

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Farmer Dave's CSA

This is our second year participating in Farmer Dave's CSA.  It is a wonderful program where each week we pick up a crate of farm fresh vegetables.  Not only am I proud to support locally based agriculture, but the vegetables are delicious and it's a great value.  I highly recommend it to anyone interested!

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Question for us all....

Doesn't everything die at last,

and too soon?

Tell me, what is it you plan to do

with your one wild and precious life?

—Mary Oliver

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A day at the pool

Yesterday I took you to a neighborhood pool.  It might have been the best day of your little life.  My boy, you had so much fun splashing around.  The water was cold but it didn't stop you.  You were the youngest in the pool but it didn't stop you.  You were soaked ---- water in your eyes, water all over your face but nothing could stop you from splashing and loving every moment of it.

It was impossible to watch you and not be filled with such joy.  My little water bug.  I love you more than fish in the sea....

starting where I am....

The summer is always a time of abandoning schedules and being a bit more free form.  I eat worse, I sleep too late in the morning, I exercise less.   As we know, life is a balancing act.  A delicate balance of being relaxed and being disciplined...   Holding on and letting go....  Finding the right equilibrium for yourself.

As much as I have enjoyed the summer, I am craving more structure.  Rather than get bogged down by how derailed I have become or how far my goals seem to be, I will start where I am.   A commitment on this Monday, August 20, 2013, to a better self.   Involving some daily exercise, mediation and writing.  It will help to visit this space with more frequency again.   My little place in the internet that centers me.   Upward and onward we go in the infinite quest for peace.

 

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