this is my niece, selah. she’s the youngest of my nieces. I have three, and three nephews, and at Christmas there will be one more niece or nephew to join the family. selah is the daughter of my sister treeva, the youngest of my sisters, who is just older than me. selah is very excited about and aware of life around her. though her face is shadowed in this picture, the joy she wears on it is very clear. the world is a very new place for her and with the gift of guidance she has been given, by having treeva and tim as her parents, tells a really great story for the future of humanity and therefore the world around us. I feel excited about the awareness of the new generation, and I am thankful to my sisters and all the parents who are raising them, with love, creativity, and hope for a better world.