Welcome, Asha!

Yesterday a brand new person entered the world. I was lucky enough to see her and hold her in her first few hours of life. She is healthy and was ready to nurse and snuggle. Watching her tiny toes curl, her little hand clutch her mother's finger, seeing her eyes already seeking out her mother's face and voice: a flood of memories came back of my own experience with my new person at her birth. My friends are the most wonderful parents to their two-year old son. This baby will be cherished.

"Welcome to the spinning world," the people sang, as they washed your new, tiny hands. "Welcome to the green Earth," the people sang, as they wrapped your wet, slippery body. And as they held you close they whispered into your open, curving ear, "We are so glad you've come!"

words and art by -Debra Frasier from On The Day You Were Born