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Alexander C. Kaufman

Every morning our routine is the same: I get up between 6 and 7 am and let my wife, who wakes earlier to feed our newborn, go back to bed. I fix another bottle for our daughter, change her diaper, then she falls asleep on my chest for hours. I just read and occasionally kiss her little head, which — exactly like mine when I was born — is covered in so much dark brown hair it’s the first thing strangers comment on when they meet her. Every 15 minutes or so she sniffles or lets out a little yip and nuzzles her face into my chest and falls back asleep. I’m racked by a sense of how ephemeral this all is — a kind of pre-nostalgia for when I know I’ll look back and remember these mornings in the sepia-toned blur of memory. I can’t wait to until she can share meals with me and talk and read. I yearn to see who she’ll grow up to be. But right now I just feel so lucky for these mornings, when nothing mattered except loving and nurturing her, being her ultimate protector. What a gift unlike any other.

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There’s a line in this manga I’m reading about a roving ronin and his baby that goes so hard. “A father knows his child’s heart, as only a child can know their father’s. Father and child walk through life hand in hand. This is seikan, the bond of life.”

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I'm still in college. But the point of all my struggles is to have the kind of life you do. Wish me luck

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This is beautiful

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Ah yes, “nostalgia for the present” i call it. I find when I’ve identified it in the moment i have remembered it forever. Some of those times were 2am feedings with my sons who can both drive now. Sounds like a great one!

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this is beautiful i love your voice and wish you would write and maybe speak (walk and talk) more about these moments. human authentic relatable name that feeling or pre- nostalgia now-stalgia it’s bergsonian a type of durée it’s proustian for a moment to take place in an unbounded temporal theatre

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That's probably the sweetest thing I've ever seen on Farcaster :) She's lucky to have you as her dad!

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This is beautiful though.

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I'm going through the exact same situation with our newborn son and am experiencing the same feelings right now. It really does feel so and as tho it's already gone, but I'm trying to make the most of each of these moments and present and grounded for as much of that time as I can.

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Enjoy those baby snuggles for they grow up quick and those precious memories will be just memories. Truly peaceful moments

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So beautiful I remember similar moments with my now toddler when he was a newborn That all being said he still regularly falls asleep on me, so that feeling/experience probably isn't going away any time soon

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Haha I got into the DAO space because I had tons of downtime from my kids sleeping on me. Thinking through proposals while my little ones were dozing on me is one of my fav memories. Enjoy it!!

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i try and take mental snapshots of my newborn when he’s laying on my chest. i still look at my toddler and get teary-eyed remembering when he was new and small. there’s nothing more fleeting and surreal than those early days ❤️

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I too have a newborn on my chest, and it’s the most magical feeling in the world.

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