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My Baby Girl Is Clapping!
Watching the opening ceremony of the Games this pm, I was struck by how perfunctory and banal clapping can sometimes be. Especially if, like the poor maidens standing in a circle around the stadium, you have to do it on pain of death (possibly) for 2 hours or more.
However, yesterday my beautiful baby girl started to clap her hands, aged nearly 9 months. I can’t tell you how much that meant to me. That silly gesture that has always made me wonder what it is all about, suddenly became something magical. And that’s the beauty of being a Father I guess.
Not just so that you can appreciate clapping, but that it makes you see wonder and beauty and joy in the little things, all over again.