fotoNovelette: baby Abigail.

“I get to hold babies!”

I was telling my high school teacher, Mr. Miller, how I’d been feeling pressured to get a job with ‘benefits’. Miller paused a moment in his characteristically-wise fashion, then said, “But you enjoy what you’re doing.”

“Yes! I get to hold babies!” Miller has known me long enough to understand my off-center train-of-thought & random outbursts: so he just nods his head at my moment of enlightenment. Sure, there are whole load of other things I love about telling stories with my camera, but right then it was all about babies. I get to wrap babies in blankets & take oh-so-dreamy pictures of them. I get to feed babies their bottle after the session & listen to their mothers who are grateful for adult conversation. I get to rock babies to sleep & watch their parents pick-out the pictures that will let them remember their babies as babies.

I get to hold babies like Abigail & that’s a pretty nice benefit.