this is the sky on the day you were born. i took at at 4:03 PM,...

this is the sky on the day you were born. i took at at 4:03 PM, right before I started spreading the news to everyone that at long last Tallulah Louise was here, and that she and Mom were both happy, healthy and, for the first time in a couple days, resting. 

When we checked into the hospital it was cold and rainy and dark. typical orgeon spring.

I called dad, who had cancer, and mom, who had cancer, and polly, who had cancer, and as that whole bad streak of death lopping off limb after limb of...