Zzzzz.....

There are few things more intimate than falling asleep with another person. The rise and fall of your chest slows as your breathing synchronizes with that of the other person. The breath of each circles and mingles until it is one in the same. Recently while holding my foster daughter as she fell asleep, I thought about how lovely it is for a child to experience such an intimate moment with a parent. When we sleep, we are in our most vulnerable state. We must trust someone entirely to give up consciousness in their arms. That moment must embody the epitome of the parent/child relationship, total and complete trust. I can't help but think how sad it is for the countless children in the world, including the two new ones I have been given to love, who haven't had this luxury from their very start. For them the ability to trust implicitly doesn't exist. And we wonder why there is so much wrong with our world.