Snippets

June is a crazy month, with far too many endings and beginnings, and this year even more so.  The Outlook calendar bristles with overlap warnings and deadlines, and emotion lurches this way and that behind an endless train of Significant Events.  Inevitably, I suppose, primary school plague had one last hurrah before the petri dish disperses for summer, and I spent much of this week lying in a dark bedroom popping pills and cursing the lack of productivity. 

I'm still a bit fuzzy, but here's what we did last night:

 

Kindergarten graduation.  Not a contrived circus of "achievements", but rather the celebration of a cohort of infinitely precious and unique little people launched on their journey towards adulthood. The kindergarten teacher, besides being phenomenal at what she does, is also a talented photographer, and each year puts together a DVD, set to music, of candid photos taken over the course of kindergarten. Somehow it puts not just my own child, but his whole little community into perspective; distills the wonder of being human and real and unique out from the noisy, messy, naughty chaos that too easily obscures our ability to truly see children.  Profound stuff.

Comments

[Amy]

Adorable.

[lucette]

what a lovely way to remember this special age.

[Lynn in Tucson]

Beautiful.

Soyex mieux.