Oh the sweetness of you!

I loved getting in a brief visit with Luleia (and her mom and dad) in her first few months here.

There is something so otherworldly about entering a home where a new baby has just arrived. Where the world has rent open to make a space of belonging for a brand new life. The hush and also the noise of it, the whole gravity around this new star, burst forth from nothingness and built from the bones of her ancestors, mineral, animal, living, and long gone.

She was awake when I arrived, and sleeping when I left. The memories of non-stop rocking, bouncing, dancing, swaying that my babies also demanded, could be felt in my nervous system as I watched her parents do the same for her. I love the animal instinct of that, the baby bounce, and imagine the thousands of years of bouncing babies that the earth has felt and witnessed.

Welcome Luleia Grace, I am so glad to know you, and to be in your orbit!

***Images from Luleia’s mom and dad’s maternity session here. You’ll recognize Rayann’s beautiful green shawl, wrapping her pregnant belly, now wrapping her baby.***