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Reflection by Elizabeth Kennedy<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This poem by Patti Smith inspires hope that society can value the significance of each baby’s well-being. It is the introduction to the book entitled One: Sons and Daughters in which Photographer Edward Mapplethorpe has photographed babies on the occasion of their first birthday. In his beautiful foreword, he describes the privilege of gaining trust and capturing a fundamental aspect of that child’s personality.

Looking for signs of vitality — that light in their eyes that will shine for years to come or expression of emotion so fundamental for a responsive caregiver to acknowledge — I’m optimistic that we have ever-increasing respect for the concept of emotional health, well-being, and optimal development during the crucial sensitive periods of the earliest years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Untitled poem from ‘One: Sons and Daughters’<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

By Patti Smith<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

One coupling vine
Hands like yours
Eyes like mine
A shard of love
A troubled brow
An ancient soul
We know not how
Bathed in a light
Of cherub wings
A sense that one
Divines all things
One year one life
One girl one boy
One will churn
Reclaim our joy
One will build
One will play
Notes that none
Would cast away
One is beauty
One is truth
One is future<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One was you<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Elizabeth Kennedy is a Fellow of the UMass Boston Infant-Parent Mental Health Program. She graduated from UMass Amherst in Early Learning & Child Development and been a child advocate in Austin, Texas for the past 15 years.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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