Dear Friends,

On the 11th day of Christmas, 3:26 a.m....A Child Is First Born!

To Son-in-law and daughter: Jose Luis and Chenoa Stock Claure

Leandro Aiden Claure (Lion of man, mission of fire)

in St. Louis, MO

Mother, father and son doing well...grandparents still recovering...

A Reflection below...

Ellie and Carleton :)

EYES, ONLY HOURS OLD

Eyes,

only hours olds,

innocently laser-beamed

life's disease and death's marrow--

healing births' paradox and

revealing its wholeness

to a pondering heart

as a rooting mouth,

also hours old,

hungered beyond the miracle

of a mothering breast.

ejhs