baby alba

When I came across this beautiful family last week (thank you Leigh and Elizabeth),  I wondered about and marveled at many a thing.  When I went to the blog We Live Young to read about the home birth of their daughter--you all know I relish a great birth story-- I was equally blown away by their lives and names.  Nirrimi (sister Pixie) and Matt have so eloquently documented their journeys through pregnancy and birth, and shared bits of their exciting lives with us.   I'd say traveling the world as career photographers and film makers at the age of eighteen is pretty exciting, anyway. 

Make no doubt about it, they're young, but quite ahead of the game--no, they aren't even playing it--and show a wisdom and readiness beyond their years.  I wonder, perhaps, if this might be attributed to the pursuit and development of passionate interests as children (a luxury we often assume belongs only to adults, as our kids spend hours a day behind desks).  I wonder if it might also be attributed to seeing so much of the world so early--sewing oats by traveling to India at sixteen, rather than engaging in drug binges at twenty. from never being told "you can't", "that's just not realistic" or "this is just the way the world works; get in or get left behind." I wonder if it might come from encouragement over fear, from cups filled with as much play and beauty as competition and productivity. Then I wonder if this might be the way of coming generations, with so much information and so many resources at their fingertips, assuming we are able to let them dream and explore.  Wondering doesn't make it so, of course.  But I like this picture, just the same. 

Their beautiful new daughter's name (oh man, is she squishy)?
Alba Joy Firebrace (she took Mom's surname. )

This is one name story I can not wait to hear.  

Congratulations Nirrimi and Josh! and Welcome baby Alba! 

(images: all courtesy we live young)