The Antidote
One of the hardest parts about being human is our inability to travel forward or backward in time on a whim, to gain instant perspective. We can look at our day or our month. We can look through the telescope of our mind at these moments scattered about us, but how does time affect our […]
Morning Swell
A photo posted by Charlie Capen (@charliecapen) on Jan 8, 2016 at 11:51am PST For distinct periods of time as a boy, I can remember my father waking up before dawn, and sometimes his very presence would urge me out of bed. I don’t exactly remember why I knew I had to wake up, or […]
Inside Out With Only The Out
I haven’t seen Inside Out yet. I know, what kind of a Pixar fanboy am I if I can’t even get my butt to a screen or a theater or a phone to watch a Disney Pixar film about something that I am intimately involved with: total lack of control over my emotional state. Kidding. […]
Deaf Man Finds Out Wife Is Pregnant
Okay, so first off, the title of this post is kind of ridiculous. Why would a man and his ability to hear have any bearing with how he reacts to learning he’s going to be a father? But this is different. Deaf husband finds out wife is pregnantDisturb RealityOriginal: https://youtu.be/lMqjpnre0U8 Posted by Disturb Reality on […]
Flowers & Guns
In the past week, we’ve seen conversation vary in color, pitch and tone. Humanity has learned, once again, what it means to mourn online. There’s a brackish tide of emotions washing over all of us from all sides. The seas smack against the rocks. Hate spreads and burns us up. Sadness blankets our thoughts. But […]
The Sweet Gasping Breaths of Life (3 Amazing Videos)
I like to think I study parenting. Not with books or articles or words and such””the back-and-forth flicking of the eyeballs thingy interferes too much with my naturally vacant stare. No, I study parenting through experience and observation, and from hearing war stories of wrangling the little mini humans into full-sized ones. I’m interested in […]
Finding Yourself
When you have a child there is a unique, physical connection that is almost impossible to put into words. Whether you’ve even met your baby or not, it’s there. In the air. In the ether. Somehow we feel it. And they feel us. But just how much? Though this video is an ad, it’s got […]
The Best We Can Hope For (VIDEO)
There are small moments with grand meaning when you’re a parent. It’s honestly hard to describe if you don’t have kids, but it’s something like loving something so much you could explode into a billion million tiny sparks of light and confetti. This video captures a glimpse. This father is an engineer on a train. […]
A Mother Photographs Her One-Armed Daughter in Scenes of Beauty and Whimsy
Photographs can tell a story, show evidence, capture history and controversy… They can also enter into worlds of wonder and imagination, breaking the boundary of captured reality and enter into the suggestion of fantasy. Holly Spring, brilliant photographer and mother of her one-armed daughter, decided to create new worlds with her handimazing little girl. Ugh. […]
Cheating Death
In between the fun and filled-up diapers there are quieter moments in parenting. They hit you when you let your guard down. You’ll be tucking your kid in for bed or sitting on the couch watching your child watch one of your favorite shows from childhood. He’s laughing with you. You look at each other […]
