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“Early labor has started”, Adam says.

And I think about taking his Mom to the hospital when he caused the contractions.

30 very short years ago.

I hope Jubilee isn’t as stubborn as Adam.  He really put the LABOR in labor.

I know Adam and Abigail will feel the same wonder as Jean and I did.

I felt as if my world focused down to just one room.  All the rest did not exist.

Then he was with us, then we were taking him home.

His mom was crying on the way, “We’ll only have him for 18 more years”

Then he and his wife are having Jubilee.

Wow

I was on a road flanked by harvested corn fields.

The approach of my car caused a flock of starlings to take flight.

I could have parted them with my car but I slowed to match their pace.

For a few moments I was the last member of the flock.

We moved at the same speed, in the same direction.

For a few moments I matched their pace but not their freedom of dimensions.

I enjoyed being the last starling until they settled back into the field

leaving me once again limited and linear.