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Wow, what happy news during this smoke-filled time. Congrats and thanks for all the photos. She looks so very alert and has so much hair! Very clear soul. :) Welcome Noa Mae!

Big congratulations! I am very excited for you both!

Congratulations and blessings to the three of you! Enjoy every moment with your little miracle. The first days are so precious.

My daughter and I watched the slide show. Congratulations Evan and Jessie. Noa's first post is a remarkable one. I love the name and the spelling.

Congratulations!

Congratulations Evan,Jesse and Noa. You have been a rock in the community of Ojai, and a rock for me during these difficult months. One of the last things I asked Glenn was to reincarnate quickly so I could find him again.Let me know if baby Noa begins speaking quantum physics and fractals at an early age. Thank you for sharing this beautiful news and breaking me out of the deep sadness I am still lost in. Life goes on. Rejoice. Memory of love never fades.

Wow. To avoid confusion, I am Glenn's partner. I don't know why I wrote mason-torres, my previous married name of 20 years ago. Just shows you what a toll grief takes on you. But this doesn't take away my desire to celebrate the new life with which Ojai as been blessed. Cheri

thanks, everybody!!

my insights are beginning to flow like water (or, like amniotic fluid?)

there's lots of talk about how newborn babies bond with their parents in those critical first moments after birth, studying their faces, hearing their voices, etc. i've discovered that as a parent i've done and am doing the same thing: studying Noa's face intently, memorizing every nuance of her perfect skin. she's on my lap right now, sleeping soundly, and i can't decide whether this is so wierd that my mind cannot even process it, or if it's so perfectly normal and right that there's nothing to process.

Cheri, i'll be on the lookout for fractal-talk, for sure!!

Not ever being a father or witnessing a birth your slideshow was moving for me to see. Thank you. By the way I think it's normal that your mind cannot not process the experience. It is purely a heart and Soul experience.

Congratulations, poppa.

Love and Joy. Thanks for sharing these sacred moments. I couldn't download the video but no matter; I tap into my own inner video of fourteen years ago and of the universal human birthing experience. Makes me want to do my bit to build a peaceful world for the world's children down to the seventh generation, in other words for all generations. Love, Dennis

Congratulations!

Megumi says "hello" Jessie, Evan and Noa Mae,
and "what a great happiness."

Wait till Claire see this new post. Shouldnt those picture stay within the family.
C'mon Claire Im offended by this post.

Wow. What a touching slide show - and a beautiful baby! Congratulations!

Congratulations! Thank you for sharing such a sacred experience and bringing into the world a beautiful goddess.
love,
Ali-Sun

Congratulations Evan. Thanks for believing in modesty and respect. Unlike leslie , you welcome all bloggers and make us feel comfortable.

thank you all (with the exception of Anonymous 3:48)...we're so pleased to be able to share our family with you! We came home from the hospital just yesterday, so we're adjusting to and creating a home schedule. Many new aunts and uncles have committed to bringing us meals for a couple of weeks, so we're enjoying that generosity and those visits.

thank you as well, Claire (if it's really you) for your brief and supportive message. Jessie was shocked at the bluntness of my last-line warning in the original post, and i have to admit that the strength of it was borne of an anxiety and fear of what could be done with my family's integrity. it must be said, however, that i'm very supportive of Leslie's openness, clarity, modesty, and respect.

Congratulations Jessie, Evan and Family! While you were birthing beautiful baby Noa, I was in Chicago for the christening of my new great niece, Olivia -- proudly wearing my ratty lavendar bracelet : ) I'm so glad that all went well, that Jessie's safe and that Noa's with us now!
Much love to you all,
Peggy

May Noa's world be better than the one we're looking at right now, and may she be one of the people who helps to make it so.

well met, phalarope. i'm mindful that this never was my world...that i've been borrowing it from Noa and her children since long before they were born. i hope to impress the same upon her, so that her sense of stewardship is keen.
incidentally, thank you for taking care of my world (i presume you're of at least one generation before me). it might look like hell to you...it might look like hell to me...but i trust you did your best.

Thanks, evan, but I don't feel as if I deserve any thanks. Apparently, my generation didn't work quite hard enough. Either that, or we simply never imagined that there would ever be, in our own country, such a collection of people who would seek to destroy the US Constitution while also attempting to return the country to the laissez faire days of the Robber Barons. When I was a kid, they used to tell us all of the time that The Communists were the ones who would come here and use the Constitution for toilet paper. It turns out that the people who told us that -- and their descendants -- are the ones who are doing it.

I don't know what to tell a younger generation. I don't know what questions to ask an older generation. I'm fresh out of ideas. None of the ideals I ever held dear help much when the opposition decides that the only rules are that there are no rules, or that winning is the only rule.

Maybe this is just a dip. Maybe things will get better. Maybe I need to take a trip and get some perspective. Maybe I need to just be quiet, because this thread is about Noa, not me.

I won't give up, however, even though I feel as if I am thrashing about uselessly most of the time. My wishes for you and yours remain the same.

Hey Jessie and Evan
I'm very, very, very happy for you. What else can be said? You are blessed!
Paul

Jessie,evan & baby Noa--
reading all the congrats and feeling your joy and awe makes me smile and wish the very best for "yall"
uncle jim