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The Picture

This is my beautiful grandson (Ajani Frederick Thomas) with the women in his life.　His Nana (that’s me holding him five minutes after he was born), his Nalo (Swahili for Grandmother – that’s Constance holding him right after birth) and his Mommie (Roslyn holding him on his first bath day on his second day in the world). He was born on October 22, 2008 at 6:31pm and weighed in at 5.4 oz, 17 1/2 inches long. Now I know why everyone says their baby is the most precious, most beautiful baby in the world. I’ve never experienced anything like this in my life. I began loving him before he was born. I participated in his birth (it was awesome!!!) and I never fail to take a picture or video of him when I see him.　　He is a happy baby, very attentive and he loves to be talked to, read to and sung to. He has begun talking himself (baby speak) and I’m loving it. He makes me a better person and I only want the best for him. There are over 2000 pics/videos of him and counting. So this is what unconditional love really feels like.

Thanks for sharing in my happiness – Diane

Copy of email that was sent from her to me not forwarded

MAILED DIRECTLY TO ME!!

GRANDSON??????

Two times in
I’ve been struck dumb by a voice that
Speaks from deep
Beneath the endless water it’s
Twice as clear as heaven
Twice as loud as reason
Deep and rich like silt on a riverbed
Just as never ending
Current’s mouth below me
Opens up around me
Suggests and beckons all while swallowing
Surrounds and drowns and wipes me away
But I’m so comfortable, so comfortable
Shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up
You’re saturating me
How could I let this bring me
Back to my knees?
Third time in
I’ve been baptized by a voice that
Screams from deep beneath the cold black water it’s
Half as high as heaven
Half as clear as reason
Cold and black like silt on the riverbed
Just as never ending
Current’s mouth below me
Opens up around me
Suggest and beckons all while swallowing
Surrounds and drowns and wipes me away
But I’m so comfortable, so comfortable
Shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up
You’re saturating me
How could I let this happen?
Why don’t you kill me?
I’m weak and numb and insignificant
How could I let this bring me back to my knees
Euphoria, euphoria, euphoria, euphoria

I’M BACK DOWN, I’m in the undertow
I’m helpless and awake, I’m in the undertow
We die beneath the undertow
There doesn’t seem no other way out of the undertow
Euphoria