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Just back from nine days on Campobello Island which means more photos of the island. They are after the first image as a major event in our lives has happened - our family has increased by one with the birth of our grand daughter late Saturday night, our first grand child, Madeline Grace Medina.
This birth has moved me to tears of joy and gratitude. I am so proud of Bridget and her husband Rudy and the way they are conducting their lives with committment and a caring love for each other. Now, somehow a circle has completed its journey and brought a new life into this world that I sense a connection with that is simply, joyous.
In the photo below, taken by Rudy Medina, Madeline's proud father, I see the wondrous creativity of a loving God who chose to bring this new life into the world late Saturday night. I am in awe. Like Abraham Heschel, I asked for wonder, and I received it. We are all blessed this day.
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Madeline Grace Medina, age one hour.
Here is a song of welcoming for Madeline, and for all the new life we are graced with by children, or by a changed self that we bring into being with each new discovery.
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A few scenes from Campobello taken last week
Three images of gulls taken last week:
The Gull Who Waited By the Water
(There is a silly poem here which you may call me out on)
My friend, Harry the Ring Billed Gull said to me,
"Here I sit waiting by the sea,
waiting for a fish to come to me.
I am lazy I know,
but the water is low,
and who knows, I have heard
it has happened before."
Feeling a little wacker,
I gave him a cracker,
the gull who sits by the water.
The sea is its own artist,
painting itself anew each and every moment
Here is the tent cabin Lee, a red squirrel and myself stay in each time we go to Campobello, The squirrel stays outside with the Juncos and the crows who never stop arguing with each other.
Some humor:
Peace until next post,
Bill Lagerstrom
