Her Sweaty Curls In Your Hand

Dear Friend,

There are few things that stop me dead in my tracks.

Most of the time I'm on "full-tilt" as Janis Joplin used to say -- and trust me, this is a blessing... and a curse.

But one of the things that means everything to me -- one of those "moments when time stops ticking" -- is when it's time to put my daughter to bed.

You know, it's funny, but your kids mark your aging and your mortality, more than anything else in the world.

For instance, you don't usually look at yourself in the mirror and say "Gee, I'm aging"... and when you're active and fit and you take care of yourself health-wise like I do, it's also not often you stop and say "I can't do what I used to do when I was younger" either.

But you will look at your children from time-to-time and see simply incredible changes in them -- either physically, developmentally, or as far as what they do on their own without you -- and realize "Gosh, I remember way back when..." and then you DO feel like you've aged a bit, simply "because".

Anyway, like I said, I love putting my daughter to bed.

We usually talk for a little bit, and then she just falls asleep cuddling her little doll. 

Last night, I thought she was asleep and when I got up, she said, with her eyes closed, "Don't go daddy.  Hold my hand."

I laid back down with her and I let her curl her little fingers around my thumb, while I gently cupped the rest of my hand around the back of hers.

There are certain distinct facial features that babies, infants, and young children have, that get lost as they get into their "older" years -- let's say by age 8.

For example, her lips. 

The distinction between their lips and the skin immediately around their lips, is very defined when children are young.  It's like the line around the edge of their lips sort of loses its sharpness as kids evolve -- like fine sandpaper somehow slightly smoothes the edge around your lips as you go from being a baby to a young kid.

And her eyelashes. 

You can see each individual long dark eyelash as if it was a slim rod growing up out of her eyelids, slightly thinner than one of those narrow pencil leads you slide into an automatic pencil, but nowhere near as stiff.

And as she's falling asleep, I'm lucky enough to rub my course fingers back through her silky fine damp curls, and over her perfectly smooth round head. 

I can feel each of her hairs over my clumsy hands, which don't seem to be so clumsy at those moments.

As I'm looking down at her face and her tiny little body, I'm wondering -- hoping with all the might I can muster up -- that somehow I will never ever lose this feeling, or these memories -- that I can somehow permanently press this image into my mind like an artist burns the edge of a soldering iron into a wooden block, creating permanent etchings of a design.

I wonder if there is a way I could recall images like this one, that are buried away inside my memory banks "automatically", like the same way your elbow "automatically" twitches when you bang in that spot right behind it -- whenever I get down or frustrated by something that goes "wrong". 

Although as I'm in this moment with her, it seems hard to think anything could possibly be "wrong", you know?

She is only the second woman in my life I've ever gotten close to -- her mom (my wife) being the first.  Both of them have a very soothing effect on me.

I don't think I'll have too much trouble recalling this experience -- at least not for a good long while anyway.

Now let me tell you something else you'll remember for a good long while, and that is the experience you will have at my seminar in March in Orlando.  I absolutely will NOT run my fingers through YOUR hair, but nevertheless, you'll still have fun:  Go here to register for it right now, before the next price hike: http://www.informationmarketingexpo.com/

Now go sell something,

Craig Garber

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