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Charles John

May 14, 2000
(Mother's Day)
7 pounds, 6 ounces
21 inches

Charles Ventures Out

Charles at 18 Months

Big Brother Charles



Baby Song
From the private ease of Mother's womb
I fall into the lighted room.
Why don't they simply put me back
Where it is warm and wet and black?
But one thing follows on another
Things are different inside mother
Padded and jolly I would ride
The perfect comfort of her inside.
They tuck me in a rustling bed--
I lie there, raging, small, and red.
I may sleep soon, I may forget,
But I won't forget that I regret.
--Thom Gunn

May 15, 2000

May 17, 2000
The Waking
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I have to go.
We think by feeling. What is there to know?
I hear my being dance from ear to ear.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
Of those so close beside me, which are you?
God bless the Ground! I shall walk softly there,
And learn by going where I have to go.
Light takes the Tree; but who can tell us how?
The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair;
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
Great Nature has another thing to do
To you and me; so take the lively air,
And, lovely, learn by going where to go.
This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
What falls away is always. And is near.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go.
--Theodore Roethke

Out in the World


around the neighborhood

on the boat

visiting Laura

back to Laura's

at yiayia and pappou's

Halloween at pappou's store

Charles at 1 1/2

Big Brother Charles


Charles and Lily
May 2002

Driving Pappou's Boat
Summer 2002


Family 2002 Poems & Pictures 'ippy Clog & Sandal Co. Our Trip