I love this picture, I love how each of these children are so perfectly comfortable intertwined with one another. The utter closeness it represents, the connection, the trust. The imagination and wonder of just being silly without worry of judgment. The total abandonment of self awareness.
When they get older, they’ll begin to get self conscious. They’ll worry more and more about what others think of them, their bodies, what they are doing, how they are dressed. It’s unavoidable. And when that happens they will lose a bit of the complete joy captured in this picture. My hope is to keep this loss to a minimum. To teach my children to consider, for no more than a blink of an eye, what others might think and then remember that what matters is what they already know – and to enjoy the moment, unencumbered, for everything that it is.
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