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Suppose your daughter comes and presents herself to you. If you are not really there - if you are thinking of the past, worrying about the future, or possessed by anger or fear - the child, although standing in front of you, will not exist for you. She is like a ghost, and you may be like a ghost also. If you want to be with her, you have to return to the present moment. Breathing consciously, uniting body and mind, you make yourself into a real person again. When you become a real person, your daughter becomes real also. She is a wondrous presence, and a real encounter with life is possible at that moment. If you hold her in your arms and breathe, you will awaken to the preciousness of your loved one, and life is."
- Thich Nhat Hahn
(pg. 86 of Peace Is Every Step)
this passages describes everything that i am working on in my life right now. Reading those words brought me to tears. it makes me so sad to think that i could ever be too busy to see you. you girls are everything to me. i love you so much.
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| from jane's first birthday last May (how much you two have grown!) |
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| first swimsuits of the year, valentine's presents from nona. and into burt's hot tub. |
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| making cupcakes on valentine's day last week. then proceeded to play cupid and drove around delivering them to our friends while jane napped in the car. xo |
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| valentine's day 2014 |
