Love at Baby Shower

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A week ago, friends and family gathered for a baby shower to honor parent to be  Dama and Gus.  It was nice to be surrounded by the many people who love them.  The day ended with a lovely prayer offered by  Dama's father. What a blessing to stand in prayer with others for this lovely family. 

Irises

"Well. Then we had the irises, rising beautiful and cool on their tall stalks, like blown glass, like pastel water momentarily frozen in a splash, light blue, light mauve, and the darker ones, velvet and purple, black cat's ears in the sun, indigo shadow, and the bleeding hearts, so female in shape it was a surprise they'd not long since been rooted out. There is something subversive about this garden of Serena's, a sense of buried things bursting upwards, wordlessly, into the light, as if to point, to say: Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently.” 
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale