Feeling pretty groovy...

OK - sometimes life can only be described as
GROOVY.

I can't begin to describe all of the hours during this past year that have evaporated just being lost in the enormous personality of my little baby girl.

I doubt that anything can capture the essence of pure joy and happiness the way that her smile does. It comes from somewhere deep within that beautiful old soul she has and is almost always accompanied by the most disarmingly sincere belly laugh you could ever imagine.

I particularly love the smile in the shot above. Colleen was just playing with her after we got home from Christmas shopping when I walked in to the room. Sequoia saw me and lit up with this smile - which is pretty much how she always greets me these days, but it always feels like the first time I've ever seen it.

Watching her is like watching the weather - it is always the same but always changing at the same time. Never boring and so fundamentally part of the energy that connects us all that you can not ignore even the smallest part of the whole.

I of course love my little girl - that is a given and explains a part of why I am so fascinated by her, but only a part. The other part that can not be underestimated is the way that she makes me feel connected to the spiritual constant that makes this world such a beautiful experience. I feel the same sense of completeness with her in my life that I do while watching the sunrise from the top of some remote mountaintop or standing on a beach feeling the full power of a winter storm rolling in off of the Pacific.

There are just certain elements of life that make the journey make sense and without a doubt none are more immediate or honest than what Sequoia brings to my life these days.
That's about as groovy as it gets.