It’s hard you know…these moments you share with your children, beautiful moments that for however long they last…you know will end. The hard part is letting them go so that the next magical moment can present itself…the hard part is watching your children grow up so quickly…it all happens to fast. You’re always on the verge of laughter and tears and panic, and when you find that moment that is beautifully centered between the three…this is blissful – a fathers nirvana. And when I find myself in these moments I just want it to last…I am desperate to register these events in my psyche and imprint them in my memory…an over compensation no doubt from my own child-parent history, blah-blah-blah – but I don’t care. I have this beautiful life, inspired by two radiant and happy little souls…and if not for their grace and purpose I am sure I would be less a man and husband…these revelations blinding in those wonderful moments. The truth of it powerful…the importance of it not lost…and the appreciation of it resonates to the core of my soul and spirit. I may not ever understand the grande scheme of a universe that brings a child into the world only to separate her from her mother, and then reunite her with new parents…the path from then to now so complex and foreboding I try not to consider it and I just decide to be thankful and embrace this next incredible moment…sharing the promise and magic from the view at the top of a Ferris Wheel with my daughter and leave it at that.
Photo by Lawrence Lewis (2012)
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Lawrence Lewis
“I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.”
~ E. B. White
About Lawrence Lewis
I do a number of things professionally...but most of all and the true purpose of what I do through "my work" is to provide for my family, be a good husband and great father, and try to make a difference as a world citizen...I guess it's not much more complicated than that 🙂