A Poem and A Video

Stumbled upon this poem and was astonished at how appropriate it was for a girl who owns a website entitled Finding Me...

Love After Love

The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the others welcome, and say, sit here. Eat
You will love again the stranger who was yourself.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate
notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life

- Derek Walcott

And in an attempt to capture what my baby has been going through, crouched in our silly little basement doing renovations while all the other kids are outside playing in the sun, a video: