October 27, 2003

• Happy Birthday #38 to My Jane

  Today is the day that Jane was born 38 years ago in San Francisco. We actually lived in North Beach then but shortly moved to the Haight Ashbury district. It was 1965 and that whole scene was just taking off. After 13 hours of labor at UC Hospital where a wonderful intern gave me a crash course in breathing, Jane emerged at 9 lbs. 11 oz. She was 2 weeks late and I had been running up and down stairs and had even gone to the movie Bonnie and Clyde to see if I could scare myself into labor. I shared a room with a couple whose baby was born with a facial hemangioma, so I felt especially blessed that Jane was perfect. During labor I had no thoughts at all, just complete involvement with the work at hand, but immediately after I thought, if only time could stop here and the world could stay this innocent forever. So wherever you go today Jane, remember you are loved just as much as you were at that first moment of your life.
  Visit Jane here at turtle_dove in my sidebar.
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  Deep Thought: We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can’t scoff at them personally, to their faces, and this is what annoys me.

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