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July 2009 
My Beautiful Boy Wonders.....
Posted on Mar 4th, 2008
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mimi
mimi
This picture is from 1973. It is my then 2 -year -old son, Matthew, in all his glory, with all the beautiful innocence and wonder that is the world of the 2 year old.
The picture was taken at the day care centre by one of the workers-- a gifted photographer, who captured this magic moment forever.
I hope you can see the absolute beauty of black and white photography. It has its own truth.
The picture was taken at the day care centre by one of the workers-- a gifted photographer, who captured this magic moment forever.
I hope you can see the absolute beauty of black and white photography. It has its own truth.
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Watching this peaceful picture these impressions came to me :
How amazing the world is … so many interesting things to watch.
Children at the age between 2 and 3 are fascinated by things we adults take as an obviousness … like a bus,a tractor,a policecar and so on.
Unfortunately we do not as adults remember how it was to experience the world in our earliest years in life … my earliest experience I can remember is from when I was 4 years old.
I was walking by a perambulator outside on a summersday and heard the baby cry.It is hungry I thought a bend down and picked up a stone and gave it to the baby … it stopped crying and I happily walked on.When I came home my parents were angry with me and I did not understand why - I only wanted to help the baby so that it should not be hungry anymore.
I tell this story to show how different small children and adults react.
Adults know the world and what is dangerous and often get angry out of fear … I do not mean that we shall not react - more that we should react in a more peaceful manner so the world keeps on beeing amazing for the small children …
Would that we continue to see through our child's wonder-full eyes!
Thanks Poul for reading my blog. I enjoyed your sweet story about wanting to help the baby. Children can react without guile or over thinking. Nowadays, we seem to live in such an aggressive world–there are more of us, more dangerous, more rage. We can all just try to do our part to ensure peace for the good of everyone.
Looks like an angel, really. A boy-angel.
HeyHey SS,
So true. To see and be full of wonder……because the world can be so wonder full.
Hey Martha, my angel boy is now 37. He was a devil in his teens, =(:>)
but turned out to be a fine man now.
What a dollbaby - he was almost too pretty to be a boy! Thank you for sharing.
He was soooo cute and soooooo happy all the time. Always smiling. That continues today.
He is known for always smiling and is very sociable.
What a gorgeous boy!! :)
He is sweetness personified! I wonder what story he is listening to … something magical that's for sure! He has that “far, far away” look in his eyes … as though he's being transported to a wonderful land!
you should snap a photo of your boy now…same pose…b&w film for sure. I agree B&w photography…has it's own truth. We should do that here on Gaia..Post only B&W on a cretain day. April 1st ?
What an absolutely adorable picture Mimi :-)
thanks everyone for your comments. I love this picture so much.
The photographer captured a magic moment in my son's life.
Thank you all for sharing in my delight.
(((Big group Hug)))
Hello Mimi,
Thank you for reminding us to look at the world through the eyes of a child. The image is beautiful!!! That beautiful expression of life came from you. Isn't that amazing???
Kindly,
Jen
Yes, I am eternally grateful that I could give life to a son–and a beautiful daughter too- inside and out. A “Millionaire's family” they used to call that.
this is pretty synchronis, if that is how you say it. i just wrote a blog about my younger son, about his sweet childhood and then I decided. i think I will go and visit mimi and lo and behold there was this picture and before I read your blog, I thought it was a picture that you found somewhere and then I realized it was your son. You captured all i tried to say of my son's sweet childhood innocence in your amazing picture. love, jen
I seem to always be following jenni. She may be my gaia guide….
My Godson and his friends once had a photo taken up at Universal Studios City Walk. It was a very fancy, commercial, holographic picture. The kids gave it to me as a keychain adornment. Soon after, I wound up getting rushed from my job to the emergency room and admitted to the hospital. During my stay, I had little to do, so I kept loooking at that picture. I couldn't help but notice that same sense of wonder in my Godson's eyes.
I agree that black and white can be especially poignant, but sometimes the beauty of childhood even translates into color, and helps you recover quickly, so you can get back and marvel at those eyes. Thank you for posting your special picture.
Hi dr,
You won't go wrong if you follow jenni as a guide ;>))
I enjoyed the story about your godson's picture when you were in the hospital. Isn't it an amazing thing to be captivated by the look in someone's eyes.
Hi jenni,
I just read your beautiful blog about your son Harry. I didn't want it to end. You are a very gifted writer. Your piece “My Son Marty” is the most touching and memorable blog I have ever read at zaadz/gaia. You are an amazing mother and friend.
((lots of love))
It is a beautiful picture. Too bad your can't freeze the problem and have time stand still. But then you would never know the wonder of an adult son who is figuring out life for himself.
“Suzuki Roshi, I've been listening to your lectures for years,” a student said during the question-and-answer time following a lecture, “but I just don't understand. Could you just please put it in a nutshell? Can you reduce Buddhism to one phrase?”
Everyone laughed. Suzuki laughed.
“Everything changes,” he said. Then he asked for another question.
from To Shine One Corner Of The World
Your adult son is also a wonder. In his ups and downs he has helped teach you about life and made you the wonderful person that you are. Impermanence and interdependence.
Your Old Bud,
Bob
Just a “beautiful boy” as Lennon would say!
thanks so much mimi. I love coming here to visit you, jen
HeyHey Bob,
I made it through the period of angel baby to fine young man. It was the teenage years that made me wonder what I had Spawned! Matt and I laugh about it now, and he has said he is sorry for what he put me through. We both learned a lot - all of it the hard way, by personal first hand experience. Nothing is for sure, every moment is different, everything changes. We survived and love and respect each other. That is pretty good in my book.
Thanks Aley too for stopping by. ((hugs))