it's half past three in the morning and i've been sitting here for hours in the quiet reflecting on a profoundly humbling and emotional evening spent with an incredible group of people.
i think we might need to call it level six communication. so much confessed and shared - a real opening up of who we are... so much spilling forth. these people keep surprising and challenging me with their bravery to keep it real.
i'm not sure tuesday group is so much an attempt to be community as it is family. all so different and yet bonded by commitment to keep turning up each week and stumbling together with compassion.
our worlds are being shaken by our ignatian journey. solitude and silence are proving to expose our vulnerabilities, our fears, our darkness, our pain we didn't even know we had it's buried so deep...
and life keeps rolling forward... pushing us on... won't wait for us to catch up...
and so often that is overwhelming...
in the midst of grieving for what we confess to desire... this arrived from Lee in Pennsylvania... news that's well overdue and demanding celebration...finally this girl decided to join us. i am aware some of you regulars won't know these folks. judith hails from this corner of the world and lee from nashville. they are going to make awesome parents...because they are already awesome people doing significant living...
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Dear friends:
She's fashionably late, but our new partner has joined us on the outside.
Alison Fiona Smithey was born this morning, February 7 at 8:30 a.m,
weighing in at a surprising 8 lbs. 13 oz. Alison and Judith did an amazing
job of making it all happen, and I am in awe of girl power. Judith and
Alison will remain in the hospital until Thursday morning.
We're looking forward to getting to know her (they don't seem to come with
bios, profiles, or cv's) and imagine you will too.
I believe there will be some pictures available pretty soon at
http://www.swarthmore.edu/socsci/lsmithe1/alison/
Lee and Judith (and Alison)
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so welcome to the outside, little one... i have no doubt that, like your parents, you're gonna rock this planet for the better...i can't wait for the day i get to meet you in all your infinite possibility...
to my tuesday family...i love you. tonight was a privilege.
LB, x
Thanks for the mention Cary and we hope Alison gets to spend much time with you over the coming years. We hope to instil as much of your sense of spirit and wonder in her as we can!
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