This week a very dear friend gave birth to a precious baby boy. My heart filled with JOY at the news and since this was T.J.’s birthday week it brought back so many wonderful memories of the day he came into our lives 27 years ago today. Birth is truly one of life’s miracles—a soul arrives on earth and the lives that are touched are never quite the same. At his soul level T.J. was kind and sweet and sensitive. His human traits were much bolder—he was loud and fast and funny.