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   I recently heard that scientists have calculated the odds of you being born.  Yup..  they took into account wars, natural disasters, dinosaurs...  and they determined that the odds of you being born, in the moment in time you were born, to the parents you were born to, with the DNA structure you have...  is 1:400,000,000,000.  One in four hundred trillion!  Life is given...  but life is also taken away.  We all changed the day it was taken away.  We were on auto pilot.  We NEVER ONCE thought it would happen to us.  To us as family... to us as parents... to us as friends & teammates and buddy's and pals... to us as neighbors, community, fellow citizens... to us as living, breathing human beings. When we are that age we are invincible... INVINCIBLE!  There's nothing that can stop us - except, of course, ourselves.  Our journey has yet to begin in a sense.  It begins in numerous steps or stages.  The impulse of life..  the pulse of life begins, well, some believe it

I found a most incredible treasure!!  Something about it captivated me - the way that baby looked at me.  The way that Mama stood.  Both seemingly lost in a moment - standing close to one another to feel the others' support - and knowing that if something were to happen in this world, they would be there for each other.  The colors and texture of it.  Soft fibers made it appear as a rug, yet the colors were not painted on.  They were woven.  The shades of amber and sienna and tan.. the bluish greys and the greyish greens. The gold metal matte was very dating - perhaps to the 1970s - yet it was ultimately surrounded by this mammoth wooden frame that was  difficult to discern the species of due to it's over-finished patina.  Someone had adhered them to a wooden back and tried to keep the whole presentation all together with rusting old nails. There was something about them that captivated me - he wasn't really sure.  He didn't see the beauty of their eyes or the