Sometimes I feel a little strange blogging completely different types of images one post right after the other. The last post with Ethan was this explosion of energy and curiosity. This post is more of a meditation on the precious and intimate beginnings of new lives. For some reason, I am very emotional about this set of picures. I’ve known Grace, the new mother, for many years and there’s something about the tenderness in which Joe touches his babies that really gets at my heart.
So I think about these things, and I realize that they are all intricately connected – the explosions and the meditations, the curiosity and the fragility, the joy and the (joy). We are immensely capable of feeling this huge range of … things … yes we spend so much time trying to compartmentalize them all, as if one thing cannot be experienced in fullness while experiencing another. I sit in this tension as I write this post, reveling in that ballistic celebration that was Ethan’s birthday and the quiet serenity of Caleb and Peter’s new life.
LOVE these!
Well it’s not just you that get’s emotional from images like these. They tug at the heart and show real deep love. Amazing images!