Cedar Sweep [m] aniñiq

And come into the world, she did.
In an instant, everything changed.

Her first breath was taken in a cry of hello to the world. Hello to the new things and the wonders that her soul had been waiting for. This day. Oh, this day marked the time that she could now feel the warmth of the bodies she had kicked rapidly at! Oh, and she had kicked. Kicked against brothers and sisters in the way, and kicked against the belly of mama desperately. Her favorite, when this loud thunder came close to her. She cried so loud and intensely to give greetings so many times that it was a wonder when her lungs would give out.

When helpless on her back, the cries she spewed out as her mothers tongue hit her were the result of a giggle wishing to learn how to sound. Wish! She wished! One day, she would learn how to wish more, and how to crawl, how to walk, how to run, how to leap!

It wasn't the want of wishing to be sheltered again, but this beating in her stomach that told her to crawl! Nestled to drink from the life that gave her life, the soft music of the earths vibrations taught her how to be still.