“This piece can be about the feeling you get from holding a child, or the child can represent something you want to protect ... a person, a memory, a relationship, a dream, a belief. Thus, the sentiment ‘hold close that which we hold dear’ can refer to someone or something tangible — or intangible and ethereal.”—Susan Lordi
Celebrates the birth of a baby or commemorates spiritual milestones such as baptism, first communion, confirmation. Can express comfort and healing.
