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Sean

by Terrance Longtin

Rejoice, rejoice, a new life is at horizon’s gate. Listen my friends and here my words, for my own child delights us with a most welcome revelation, God’s precious gift, will soon be here! A child, a child, we shall love him and treasure him with every breath we take. Finally, finally he has arrived! A little bundle of joy, he graces our lives and touches our souls with every tiny grin and giggle. We love him instantly… completely. We cannot help ourselves it seems. We are held tightly in his grasp, our hearts imprisoned, and thus our lives are changed for eternity and beyond. Every day he grows wild and free, he tests our wits, wrapping himself around our very hearts and souls. And then one day, this child, this mischievous, loving toddler, utters the words you have been longing to hear, without perfect diction or clarity of same, he mumbles and speaks…gramps, gramps, and I surely melt away.
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love grandson life

Terrance Longtin

I'm 62 years old, I am married, I am an artist, I do abstract paintings and sell them locally and on Etsy in Terrance Gallery. I have had 23 major surgeries on my legs, recently Nov 9, Jan 11 and the next one in April. So I have a full leg cast from Nov 9 thru June 28 so I wrote a children's book which has been published and released to the public March 13, 2021. Also I kind of got interested in writing free verse poetry and I have written five so far. I love my cats and my 14 yr old grandson. I'm married to the absolute best wife ever! One of my tattoos is on my forearm, it's from a free verse poem by Walt Whitman called "Song of the Open Road" it's 15 pages long but well worth reading. My tattoo says "all seems beautiful to me" and there's a Chinese symbol for beauty at the end. Walt Whitman is known as the father of free verse poetry. I actually wrote a free verse poem about myself, which I really like.

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Terrance Longtin
This is written to honor my grandson Sean. My favorite person in world.

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