Really, Go Hold A Baby: For New Parents & Grandparents, & World Leaders, & all of Us

When you hold in your hands an only hours-old human being, your youngest son’s youngest son, you’re hushed before a miraculous little face that’s like looking into the past, into the face of your own long-ago baby boy, and of your husband, and your father, and all your people and your past, and a long line of generations of brave people who did the hard work of daily trying and and sacrificing and making and getting up and starting over again… When you gaze into a newborn’s face — you’re g