CAPTURE LIFE'S BRIGHTEST MOMENTS, THEN USE AGAINST SORROW.Byline: Richard Nemec Local View I face Father's Day this year with a bit of a swagger and a smile. It is a first after a long dry spell. Hope and redemption for me came with the first breaths of a round-faced newborn even before I knew what he looked like. My heart smiled while I tried to stay outwardly calm and serene. I am told that grandfathers are supposed to act this way. Whoa! I'm a grandpa! Recognizing the symptoms immediately, my wife and 13-year-old daughter quickly purchased for me a circuitous cir·cu·i·tous adj. Being or taking a roundabout, lengthy course: took a circuitous route to avoid the accident site. economy fare plane ticket to Washington, D.C., by way of Phoenix. Round blue eyes Blue eyes are eyes that have blue irises (see eye color), and may also refer to:
n.pl a moveable fold of thin skin over the eye. The orbicularis oculi muscle and the oculomotor nerve control the opening and closing of the eyelid. . Too young to see clearly yet, but able to drink in new beginnings. That is what I found when I arrived late at night at the hospital. Alexander Owen Nemec, a first grandchild who arrived on a singularly critical day, has captured my family's heart as surely as he has hurdled through cosmic barriers none of us can imagine to get here at this precise time. He is not just a grandchild; he's a miracle we will treasure. His birthday, May 25, 2003, shimmers as a true time of joy for us for the first time in six years. It was May 25, 1997 that a New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. emergency room doctor called to tell me my daughter, Kristen, had been killed by a hit-and-run driver hit-and-run driver n → conductor que tras atropellar a algn se da a la fuga hit-and-run driver n → chauffard m hit-and-run driver hit n . A pall has encased en·case tr.v. en·cased, en·cas·ing, en·cas·es To enclose in or as if in a case. en·case  ment n. the date and Memorial Day weekend ever since.
The days from May 1 forward were increasingly viewed with dread and
sorrow each passing year.
My life, and the lives of my wife, son and other close family members, was forever altered. I have viewed the world through sad, cynical eyes. Now I have Alex's fresh eyes to erase such gloom. He is happiness personified. We can choose to make anything we want out of my hours-old grandson, who even for uncaring, less-prejudiced eyes would be found very cute and adorable a·dor·a·ble adj. 1. Delightful, lovable, and charming: an adorable set of twins. 2. Worthy of adoration. . Knowing his parents as I do, I don't think he will lack for courage or creativity. My prediction is that he will walk early and run fast. It all adds up to newfound happiness wrapped in 6 pounds, 9 ounces of hope, the kind you cannot create; it just materializes or it doesn't. Whatever demons Demons See also devil; evil; ghosts; hell; spirits and spiritualism. ademonist one who denies the existence of the devil or demons. bogyism, bogeyism recognition of the existence of demons and goblins. still linger - and there are some - they have been pushed way back in the hidden corners of the human mind that are rarely tapped. In looking at Alex's tiny face and undaunted features, I see the reflection of all of Kristen's promise that we lost at age 25, six short years ago. He sleeps in my arms in the living room of my son and daughter-in-law's home. On a shelf only a few feet away is one of the last photos taken of Kristen on the day before she died. The new grandson sleeps looking out to his right, mirroring Kristen's facial profile facial profile, n the sagittal outline of the face. There are three distinct forms: mesognathic, prognathic, and retrognathic. as she road a bus to the church along the west side of Central Park in New York City. The baby's eyes are closed, but the tilt of his head, the up-turned nose and loving mouth are mimicking Kristen's look now forever frozen in black-and-white photographic time. I look at the photo and wonder what she thinks now. Is her soul replenished? Did she help shape the arrival of this miracle baby now gracing our lives? For the pundits who said, ``life is what happens when we're making other plans,'' I can confess to once again being trapped in life's unending mystery. This time, however, I am content to let the unknowns just be, unwinding and revealing themselves as they may. Perhaps that is the lesson of Alexander Owen coming to us on May 25, cutting right through its bitter legacy. It is to look for life's brightest moments, capture them, and hold them in our hearts as a vaccine against the unavoidable sorrow that also encompasses life's winding journey. I feel like I have been led out of a huge, dark valley onto a sunlit sun·lit adj. Illuminated by the sun. Adj. 1. sunlit - lighted by sunlight; "the sunlit slopes of the canyon"; "violet valleys and the sunstruck ridges"- Wallace Stegner sunstruck plateau. The view ahead is still clouded, but it is at least bright with optimism now. The clouds are breaking up to let in more light. There is a continuum to life that transcends those moments of intense darkness. And if we want to see it close up, I suggest we look closely at the faces of our children and grandchildren GRANDCHILDREN, domestic relations. The children of one's children. Sometimes these may claim bequests given in a will to children, though in general they can make no such claim. 6 Co. 16. . |
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