Tai’s having Lily, the child Jeff and she have been working on and waiting to have happen. G-d willing!

Melis called, and said she’s about to be born. All according to g-d’s plan. And so lucky to have great health care, off we go to have Lily stage her entrance. Must admit it made me a little wet around the eyes.

Life happens, without a warning sometimes. We can’t pretend that we haven’t been warned by the previous 9 months. And a Mexican island Christmas.

Friday is Rosh Hashanah, while today is for Lily love (at first sight). She couldn’t wait, nor can I. It is a celebration of g-d creating Adam and Eve, and involves blowing a shofar and eating apples, honey, and raisins.l I’m all about doing it all just two days early!

I have been thinking lately about the times I am most happy. It is when my whole immediate family is gathered in one room…as it turns out ideally it is a bedroom, where we’re all quiet, and I am sleeping like a shepherd between them and anything that could do them harm. I can sleep peacefully, and happy, because of knowing they are well, safe, healthy, and without threat. Maybe a little snoring just for great musical acompanyment.

Another time, as I’ve often said to all who’d listen, I smoked a cigar. But it was November, then, and just like today also very wet. It was the morning of Tai’s birth. Probably lit very much like today, all gray and foggy. So the light is exactly the same. We are required to bring the light into our own lives, I believe, so I’m reminded that today things are just the way they should be. On a glorious morning in September.

I love that her birth is just two days before Rosh Hashanah, where the Shofar is blown. Honey, raisins, and apples are eaten. And the celebration is of the birth of mankind in the garden. Certainly the creation myth is alive and well in Lily. You can see it if you see her picture.

As a friend of mine wished us all: peace, love, and light.