We were invited to a neighbor's birthday party today where we knew exactly zero guests. I took my camera and willingness to make a new friend or two. The latitude of personalities at a gathering is always pretty wide. Sports fans (the two Final Four games were hosted in the living room), kid fans (talk a lot about their kids), shopping fans (here the conversation steers to what new store is being built and where), family scuttlebutt fans (where you hear stuff you probably shouldn't hear), and food fans (most everyone fits this category).
Then there are the kids, who like to herd it here and there, usually outside on the swingset or on their scooters, or just chase each other around. They don't mind staying out of the way of overbearing adults who spoil their fun as often as possible. I cornered all seven of them for a few willingly posed pictures.
It isn't hard to understand why portraits of the younger set are so much better than those of their parents. They have yet to lose that freedom to act naturally and feel overly self-conscious. And the more heads in the picture, the better the poses. They're still in the show-off stage of life.
God has so blessed parents, aunts, uncles and grandparents with these little ones. What an awesome responsibility we have to raise them with all the love, instruction, truth, godliness and prayer that we can, especially in a world as wicked as this.
God help us!
1 comment:
your gift of photography is so amazing. You capture these cuties so well.
And your writing gift is pretty good too.
:)
L.
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