I’ve tried to show some restraint on the baby-blogging, but it’s late Sunday night and, man, my baby’s beautiful (not that yours isn’t, whoever you are).
I was holding her a few nights ago, maybe 1, 2 in the morning, and Willie Nelson was on the CD player, and I was reading some DFW, and she was just lying on my chest, sleeping, and I just started crying a bit, I was so happy.
Crying like that is not, to say the least, typical for me. But it felt good. I hope to do it again some time.
Part of me wants to say, after moments like that, that I was put on this earth to be a father, but saying that would make it sound as if I thought I could be happy just by being a father, and I know that isn’t true. At least for now, I need the writing, and the plausible prospect of someday attaining some sort of status and prestige as a writer. But it is true that the father thing is the only thing, other than writing, that I really know, on a deep level, that I’m good at.
Anyway, if anyone’s interested, I just posted a neat slide show-video thing up at Jolie’s blog. It’s worth it for the uber-feelgood Ben Lee soundtrack, if nothing else. (also, on that note, can anyone recommend a good slideshow program that’s embed-able in a blog that allows you to lay music over the photos? — I did this one in iMovie but it was a real bitch).
