Live in the Moment

Nearly one year ago my first grandchild was born. A memory forever etched in my mind was of my daughter-in-law Lauren sitting up in her hospital bed, turning on playlists for delivery. After the relaxing, spiritual music didn't seem to accelerate the progress of Collin's arrival she took measures further and played her "motivational labor and delivery playlist." The playlist started out with the song by Salt N Pepa, "PUSH IT, PUSH IT REAL GOOD." Play a few bars and then imagine a very pregnant (41weeks) beautiful young lady after 17 hours of hard labor (4 more hours to go) getting her groove on. 

Now one of the things that draws me to another human being is humor. For some reason Collin's mannerisms and behaviors make me smile, even laugh out loud regularly in delight. Collin has a little tuft of hair that sticks up..and it has just become one of those things that makes him, well him. 

This is Collin's parents kind of humor, scary but there is some resemblance!

Collin is a happy baby, he requires a lot of stimulus

 and seems to be moving constantly when his eyes are open.

 ...and there are those times when things just don't go his way and his emotions are in full display..

Now what I absolutely love and only wish that 

everyone could share

 is this wide range of emotion and passion for life.

And so I ask--what happens to us? and when does it happen? It seems as though around the age of 7 or 8 self-awareness kicks in and human beings start comparing themselves with others, coveting what others have, stressing about the future or regretting what happened yesterday; and the innocence and simplicity of life as we know it becomes more complicated.

Unconditional Love and Acceptance

How beautiful would life be if we could unconditionally love, and live in this moment soaking in every bit of living for what it's worth, and see eye to eye with complete acceptance of one another..ahhhhh, yes and what would our world look like then?