After an ah-mazing Sunday, Monday was really special…I had the wonderful opportunity to hold a brand new baby and chat with a buddy who was living a brand new life!

Baby Cole entered this world fast and furious to the most loving, blissed out parents and big brother Ben. It was a quick (read: FAST!) morning delivery and by night, I got to hold the precious lil bundle of joy. He was curled up in a ball, snuggled and swaddled and adored by every retina that witnessed his preciousness. He was brand new to life and oh, so, wonderful! Indeed, the apple fell directly from the tree! Congrats Team Watts!

Perfect & Precious

And then there was Buddy MH who has a joie de vivre like perhaps no one else I know. Admittedly, I never got to know her that well, but well enough that I could give her a hug hello and spot her beaming, glowing smile from a mile away. When she walked into the office today, that same beaming smile greeted me at the door. But instead of running any sort of corporate rat race for the past few years, she has chosen the path extremely less traveled: teaching/living in Africa, supporting not-for-profits, volunteering with her friends of the downtown east side and fighting an ugly battle of breast cancer. Mere weeks after her surgery, she told me that when you don’t know if you have 10 years, it is hard to plan a vision for 10 years from now. *BAM* I can’t even imagine. I suppose all that matters now is that she shines, she glows and she won the battle!

You are Beautiful!

The circle of life, all in one day. It helps keep things in perspective. Life is precious, short, wild and wonderful. XO!