the joy

i had to steal this picture of claude's niece, jen? i think you won't mind sharing her joy on my page, linked to yours.


her joy is what i wish we could all exude
in life every day, and she makes me very
hopeful about having a child as lovely
and sweet. wow.

being an adult is so full of artificial ups
and downs and perceptions of rejection and
highs of approval, but this little girl seems
to be saying that being human is not that
at all. it can be exhausting trying to "get it
right" all the time, and i love the feeling that
everything is already quite alright and just as it should be if we just stop and swing and smell the coffee, if we are content with the baby teeth of our lives where they are... what an odd analogy. but sometimes i wish myself to be in a certain place, and yet this girl's joy is all the same whether or not she's on my blog or jen's. she's right there in that moment, and that's the only place she wants to be. i want to engage such innocence. oh the delights when we choose to be light.