Monday, January 13, 2025

Her first sunset

Day one
London, ON
December 13, 2024
This photo originally shared on Instagram


Dear Claira,

One month ago today, you found your way into the world.

Because you come from a family of storytellers, I gave a lot of thought to how I would begin to tell the story of you. And as the sun moved across the sky on that milestone day, I thought the days’s sunset would be an appropriate place to start.

See, you may not know this about your Zaida, but I like to take pictures so that I’ll remember what certain moments not only looked like, but felt like. And because I’ve been staring at skies and clouds since I was not much older than you, lots of those photos are of sunrises and sunsets.

So I thought the first sunset of your life would be a good place for us to start.

As I stood here 1,800 or so kilometres away from you, I stared at the deepening blue knowing you’d soon be able to share your own stories of the sky with me.

And we’d always have this one scene to hold onto, the one that started it all.

Happy first-month-birthday, little one. Always know that when you’re looking up at the sky, I am, too.

Love you forever,

Zaida

#family #everything

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