This morning, while I was
retouching some images, I came across this song and it instantly brought me back
to the first few weeks of Ben’s life. The
movie One Week was on TV almost every
day and I must have watched it four or five times while breastfeeding Ben. The
Great Escape plays in one of the last scenes in the movie and to this day
whenever I hear it, I think of myself, standing at the front window, holding my
newborn son, watching the snow fall lightly, waiting for Boris to come home. If I close my eyes while it plays, I can
still feel Ben’s weightlessness in my arms.
I can still see those curious, worried eyes looking back at mine. I can still smell his newborn smell. I am transported to one of the most beautiful
and amazing times in my life.
Sometimes it’s the lyrics
that draw you into a song and other times, like this morning, it’s the feeling the song
evokes. I love being able to go back to
some of the most remarkable moments in my life just by pushing play on my iPod. Music is really quite powerful when you think
about it. In an instant, you can be
transported back to a moment, a person, a feeling, a memory...
