November 18, 2012
Good Morning,
Last weekend was filled with expectation, anticipation and general elation when a new addition to the family finally arrived. None too soon for mommy Kelly Long, who had endured another pregnancy fraught with just about every condition an expectant mom can go through.
When the time came, helped with the bouncing ball, she delivered a beautiful boy child. I can say “beautiful” since I am a grandpa for he could of looked like a frog and I would have still said he was beautiful.
Jack Levi Long weighed in at a respectable 8lb 10oz and only missing his father’s mark by 6oz. The last 6oz were probably in his father’s head. Sporting all fingers and toes and a little mishap with his collarbone, he looks like things will be good to go and grow.
Jack Levi Long is the first of his generation to carry on the “Long” surname and with that another generation of “Longs” on the family tree. Jack was named after the grandfathers on his father Michael’s side. Jack B Wright was Jeanie’s father and John Levi Long was my father’s name. A little of both for the name and hopefully some genetics as well, for they were both good men.
What the future will bring for Jack is anyone’s guess, so I will be optimistic and say I hope that his world will be one of enlightenment, freedom and love for and from his fellowman.
That is my hope. My fear is that it will not be that way and he will see the country to which he was born, give up it’s republic of freedom for the easy road of self-serving entitlement and greed. Only time will tell and if there is one thing I know, it is that nothing ever “ever” never stays the same. Jack will live in a world much different than the one I grew up in and with many things that did not even exist back then.
Love, Dad