This afternoon, on a walk down our street, my daughter held her two fingers in the air (as she has been known to do) and said, "Peace, man." To whom, I don't know. I like to think it was to every man. But that's just me. And her gesture got me thinking about words and concepts like peace and equality and how I ...
And speaking of
rainbows, tonight, as I read my daughter her bedtime story, I looked down at her piggies and spotted her most recent adornment; a beaded rainbow anklet. She must have picked it up, somewhere between teeth brushing and lullabies. And I couldn't help but to think two things: She's right! Who doesn't need to bring a rainbow, beaded anklet to da crib and my ...
“The lovers, the dreamers and me.”
It's no wonder that my daughter's newest favorite song is "Rainbow Connection".
By the way, in case I forgot to mention it,
It is my hope that when my daughter is in high school, she looks back on this photo and groans; not because she is embarrassed that she lived with a mother who dressed her up for rainbow colored photo opps, but because she is embarrassed to have lived in a country where equality was, at one time, ...
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