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 There are many perks to working in a bookstore…

There’s the books, the music playing in the background…

the wide variety of people I get to meet….

but one unexpected but welcomed perk…are all those baby feet.

Parents enter with their babies in strollers…and it’s the parents’ faces I first greet…

but before I see the baby’s face…dangling out in front…I see those baby feet.

As the stroller rolls by me…every baby who’s awake…I greet.

I wave and smile…happy to attach a face to those tiny baby feet.

But I have to admit that moment when I first see those baby feet

for me is a little emotional…beautiful…yet somewhat bittersweet.

It brings me back to when I held my children and grandchildren as babies 

a memory I love to repeat

When what amazed me about the life I was holding in my arms

were those tiny baby feet.

I did not know at that time…in that moment so joyous and sweet

that I would have such a short time to enjoy their baby feet.

I did not realize back then…at that time…how could I know

with the persistence of Father Time how quickly those baby feet would grow.

Which makes me want to say to every parents behind every stroller

of every baby I happen to meet….

They are going to grow up fast…

so now is the time…

to take some time

and enjoy those baby feet.