a new grandchild!

Maxwell Thorin Walker,

born Dec. 27, ’12

8 lbs 1 oz, 20.5 in. long

Maxwell Thorin Walker

 slips out into the world

as a beautiful baby full of potential,

surrounded by tendrils of love

from parents, grandparents, family of all kinds, friends,

there’s a newness about him,

a sense of a being whose time has come,

after all that it has taken

for the world to ready itself for him,

Max’s first morning has him in his mother’s arms,

his father solicitous in his care as he hovers nearby,

ready to celebrate and help each moment,

as we visit on the phone with father, and then with mother,

Max sounds himself to us with melodious coos,

12 hours old, at least to the air,

he already feels the comforting blanket

 of mother and father love,

and just starts to let us know that he is,

and who he is begins to coalesce

as a new wonder upon the world.

by Henry H. Walker
December 28, ’12