7 posts tagged “ella”
Hey! it looks like this article I wrote made the [life is good] page. That is pretty cool. I spent a good while without anything making it =)
Last night the family went to Target and left me here to sit with my 1 month old, Ella Jane. I took the opportunity to throw some Otis Redding onto the record player and dance with my little girl. It relaxes her and I enjoy it.
I cannot describe the swells of joy that come from being able to hold my little girl and dance her to sleep. As I was caught up in the moment, I did not think that anything could compare to the intensity of the elation this moment was bringing me.
That is until I realized that one day, a day much sooner than I would like, I would not be able to have these moments with my little girl. That is when I knew I had been wrong about nothing being able to match the intensity of the happiness of dancing with her. The pain of knowing that, one day, I have to let her go.
Whether she decides that she is too old to dance with her old Dad or that I get to dance with her one last time before turning her over to the care of another man, I will have to let her go. The pain of that thought has, at the least, matched the intensity of the happiness of dancing with her.
I was then filled with the need to get as much out of this moment as I possibly could. So I held this little girl a bit tighter as we danced to "These Arms of Mine" and I began to cry like a baby knowing that this relationship is a journey that ends with me letting go.
Now, I am going to wipe these new tears away before the wife sees the red eyes and accuses me of being high again.
This was on the wall at the hospital where Ella was born:
Look to this day;
For it is life,
The very life of life.
In its brief course lies all
The realities and verities of existence,
The bliss of growth,
The splendor of action,
The glory of power -
For yesterday is but a dream
And tomorrow is only a vision.
But today, well lived,
Makes every yesterday a dream of happiness
And every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well, therefore, to this day.
Sanskrit ProverbElla is going to be analytical like daddy. She came back from the nursery and gave us this graph:
