What A Wonderful World! Welcome MEH!

I want to post some very exciting news today.

My daughter just gave birth to a baby girl (MEH), the first for her and her husband, and my first grandchild!

Mom and Pops and MEH are doing fine!

I want to respect the privacy of my daughter and her husband, so I will not be sharing lots of information here.

But it is interesting to note that in my second blog posted this November 1, 2010,  I Am My Father's Son, I shared about my own first experience with childbirth when I was a youth, 14 years old. My Dad an OB Doc, brought me into the delivery room to watch him deliver a baby.

It was a powerful and wonderful experience for me. It was at that very moment, almost 52 years ago, when I first heard that little baby boy cry as he was born, that I made a huge decision about my own career path.

Please read that blog if you like, as a way to witness my own inner workings as I made an instant decision to be a medical doctor.

*** Also, please take a few moments to watch a most amazing video with a great song I have included below, and an additional version of the same song you will truly love, as a way to dedicate this day, and this brief blog post, to my new wonderful and amazing granddaughter, MEH, and to my daughter and her husband as they take on their new parent role. 

My daughter shared with me, that MEH gave out such a loud cry earlier today as she was born, the doctors and nurses in the delivery room laughed out loud themselves!

Yes, the cry of a child at childbirth does remind us of our very powerful universal emotions of joy, love, and gratitude, and the good things that really make up most of this world, even though there’s much work to be done by all of us to make our world even better.

And that’s the stuff of my work, my calling, to help others move through the transitions of life and choose career-life roles that indeed provide real meaning and purpose, and somehow contribute back to this world, just as my own Dad helped babies move through their own first real transition from their Mother’s womb, to this wonderful world.

*** Enjoy this brief amazing video as Louis Armstrong sings his world famous song, What A Wonderful World, and a unique version of the same song woven within "Over The Rainbow" by an incredible Hawaiian musician, singer-song writer, Israel Kamakawiwo'ole. Hawaii and the people of Hawaii are very special to me and all my family for many reasons. Thanks for reading this blog entry. EdC