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Mr. Dimples

March19

Shortly after Gavin turned one week old, I *thought* it looked like he was trying to smile — not a reflexive smile, but an honest-to-goodness social smile. “Nah, couldn’t be,” I thought. “Surely it’s just gas.”

By 10 days old, I believed it — the kid was trying to smile. Now (at 2 weeks today!), I have no doubt at all, and even caught a smile at his daddy in photo form:

20080319 - smiles

Precocious, much?

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“Mr. Dimples”

  1. Avatar March 19th, 2008 at 2:10 pm Kate Says:

    So cute! I think babies smile much earlier than the “experts” think – both of mine smiled early!

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Allison
Los Alamos, NM
After a childhood of immersion in my family's religious tradition, I hit college and my first true experience with the question, "why?" Why did I believe as I did? If I thought about it, I had no idea. So, I spent the next ten years not thinking about it.

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Once I hit 30, I began asking myself that question all over again. A few years later, I woke one day to realize that I simply didn't believe. For many reasons, I am a much happier (and more emotionally healthy) person having let go of god. There are still days that I wish god did exist. It would be a relief to relinquish responsibility to a greater power.

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But, even better, I can see life for what it is, and work with reality. That's more powerful than any god could hope to be.