life

We are all alive!  and we were teeny tiny babies once.

I remembered this on Christmas Eve while holding a three day old baby, born just shy of six pounds: his trunk hardly bigger than my two hands cradled together.  I could still see the ridges between his individual skull bones.  I felt countless different pulses move as his blood, craniosacral fluid, lymph, and everything else buzzed around, helping him make sense of being Outside.

And Inside there, inside his own little body, every little organ and system for creating, healing, and sustaining life is already fully formed and functional.

It's so easy to be amazed when it's all brand new, but that's all of us.  We're doing it: being in the world!  What a miracle!