"If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera."
Lewis Hine
To spare my children I won't put my favorite images of them on the web.
But I have a picture of two of my grandchildren from a couple weeks ago. Their mother had told me about something that happened the night before and wanted to see if it would occur again, this time in front of my camera.
Picture this:
A dad half way around the world on a work assignment. Add to the mix, a series of NBA playoff games where his hometown team is on tv. Another ingredient: his two little children wanting to be sitting beside their dad during the game. Enter amazing technology...skype. Now arrange the furniture so the childrens little table is sitting in front of the tv with a chair on top of it. Perched on the chair is a laptop computer tilted at just the right angle so papa, in a far off land, can see the tv. Sitting on two little chairs on either side of the computer, with arms wrapped around the laptop, are his children. Twelve hours apart and yet all together watching the game.
Did I get that snapshot? Sort of...but the words are actually better this time.
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