Behind Every Baby

Besides, humor does not wear well. - Thomas Carlyle and His Works

life can be funny

we start out diapered

ending it the same way

the only difference being that

the first person to change us, does it for love

whereas the last does it for the money

Author's Note

"But let us hear a strain of music, we are at once advertised of a life which no man had told us of, which no preacher preaches. Suppose I try to describe faithfully the prospect which a strain of music exhibits to me. The field of my life becomes a boundless plain, glorious to tread, with no death nor disappointment at the end of it. All meanness and trivialness disappear. I become adequate to any deed. No particulars survive this expansion; persons do not survive it. In the light of this strain there is no thou nor I. We are actually lifted above ourselves." - Thoreau