Till We Are

I was just taken aback by a forward I just received. It made me think about the delicacy and power of life. A woman and her husband recently gave birth to their daughter who weighed a little over 1 lb. (1lb!!!!!!!) From reading a short entry on their CarePage, the miracle really is that the mother listened to her body (went to the hospital at 25 weeks because of severe cramping one night), that we had the technology to put the mother under within 10 minutes for a c-section, and that this little girl is alive and “well.” I am currently in a library, in a small cubicle, trying to grasp life in the 17th-19th centuries through the lens of capitalism and gender, trying to grasp what the human life encountered on all facets then…only to be stopped at the miracle and preciousness of life in such an acute, intense moment. Passed on from one generation to the next. One breath at a time.