So New...

Today I held a baby... A two week old baby girl. She had that new baby smell, and she grunted that new baby grunt, and she was beautiful. My days are spent hoisting 50 pound bags of soil, and trees, and rocks, and the marvel of something so small, so perfect, fingers , toes, life, was a blessing in my day. I know, babies are a dime a dozen, thousands born everyday, but to hold one to your chest, to feel soft new skin, days old, helpless, precious, tiny pieces of the future, in my hands, hands rough, calloused, dirty from a life I don't always appreciate. Whatever god, goddess, idol, shrine, or being you credit for this life we live should be praised for something so tiny, so new, so perfectly innocent. Innocents is an ideal at this stage of life, unfathomable, unreachable, but for her, everything is new, she will spend the next several years of her life, touching, tasting, absorbing new things, she will come in contact with you's, and me's, and we will have a brief moment in her life, a brief smile, a growl, a high five, a scowl, but the world will surround her, as it surrounds us all. So new, so perfect. She was barely a handful for me, this is the part of being alive that makes me happy...So little...So new....