Happy Mama's Day! I had to take this pic while reading the following by Annie Dillard. Such a sacred moment. It is amazing that you can take and edit a pic on your phone.
" -Until you have a baby, her mother said, you don’t know what love is! Her mother volunteered this on the day of Lou’s one and only wedding. –Oh, Lou wanted to say, go soak your head. After Lou brought forth Petie, she at once recalled her mothers words, forgave and endorsed them. That her mother was so often right no longer irked her. As she would never irk Petie, now joyful in her arms, he sucked her nose. Later his pointy fingers made faces with her face. She never put him down. She must feel his skin on her, feel his cranium in her arm’s crook, his belly on her belly, and smell his breath, his scalp, etc. He obviously felt the same way. They were pieces of each other foully parted. When they had to separate, she took ever deeper- breaths as if the air had no use. Her sternum and central torso and arms ached. Maytree had some horseshoe magnets in the kitchen. She gave each of them a wrench to hold.
She and Petie laughed to flout fate by smashing together thigmotropic. Or they met staring forehead to forehead, then twisted and laughed.
Lou saw that she had hitherto wasted her life. When he was six months old, she asked Maytree, Can we have more?"
-Annie Dillard "The Maytrees"
