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The Joy Of Welcoming a New Born Infant Into the World

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Newborn, miami-newborn-infant-baby-photographer-photography  This infant, just a few days old and so peacefully sleeping,  was skillfully captured by the photographer.  The mother and father are happily providing a home.  They are making many adjustments to meet this infants’ needs, including having this photograph taken.  And no doubt they are also comforting this child who cries to be fed, or changed.  Maybe the infant  just  wants his parents to hold him over a shoulder, and pat him (her) steadily, firmly, and calmly to help release a burp or to move a  bubble along in her (his) intestines.  The baby feels better, and calms down, and the parent feels wonderful in reassuring the young one that he or she is there, “willing to accept each tear” that he (she) will weep.  This is joy!  The baby’s parents are assuring him that in holding all of his present present tears, they are holding all of his future tears as well

.  This is deeply bonded joy!

The following poem from the Death section of Poems, by Regena Larrabee Seehausen (1964), gives the flip side after a still birth:

After the Baby Died

There is a comfort in the darkness now, the only thing found willing to accept each tear he might have wept.

It is a heavy vigil sorrow keeps .  My longing arms must cradle the whole night wherein he sleeps.

And my mind sifts the darkness all alone seeking that part that is my own.

July 31, 2014 Is the 50th Anniversary Of Regena Larrabee Seehausen’s Death

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DSC03500 Regena Larrabee Seehausen, looking out over the sea from an island in the Bahamas in early 1964, a few months before her passing. She left behind a shaken up family, a book of poems (1964), and unique trails of memories in the hearts of each who knew her. The above photograph is so reflective of the words below:

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Regena Larrabee Seehausen Died Fifty Years Ago

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Mommie and four kids in Camptown yard10257624_10203150486259020_8513023102578119133_o (1) Regena Larrabee Seehausen about 11 years before she died.  She is shown here with her four children; Mary, Richard, Christine, and Sylvia.  This could have been taken on the front lawn of the house in Camptown. Regena Larrabee Seehausen died on July 31, 1964 at age 48 in Camptown.   She left behind four children,  her husband, Paul Henry Seehausen, her mother, brothers, sisters, friends, and many other relatives.  She also left behind a self-published book (1964) called Poems.   In November,  Paul Henry Seehausen will have been dead for nearly eleven years.

In 1966 Paul Henry Seehausen Married Janet Baird Brown Mudge, who also had four children, a daughter and three sons.

Christmas 1990, Oxford Scan Straightened JUL 12, 2014 We have had a lot of good times, and still do, including  Christmas 1990, pictured here. This photo was taken twenty-four years ago, halfway from the time Janet and Paul married forty-eight years ago.

DSC03391 These are those same four children from the first photo, over sixty years later.  Left to right, Christine, Sylvia, Richard, Mary.