Sunday Sundance - 2/27

The Oscars may be the focus of the film scene tonight, but there's still a sundance in this girl's corner of the world.  I got to spend the weekend with my nieces and two children of friends who are like family, so today's sundance is dedicated to them.  Abbie is 9 and Lily is 5.  Elizabeth is 10 and Donnie is 7.  I had a really nice time playing with them and, moreover, observing them play together. The personas and grown-up situations they project for themselves are at once perfectly recognizable and strangely blurred, fashioned in birthday candle opacity.  When you grow up, you can't really see what they're envisioning in their imaginations.  You can't see the thing of it. Parallax doubles your perspective.  But you can remember, participate, and encourage.  You can love.  Here to the left is a piece from FOUND Magazine, an online site that publishes random print articles that people dig up from their closets or simply just find lying around.  I love the girlish innocence that resonates from this little girl's letter to the tooth fairy.  What a privilege to witness such intimate sincerity.  What an invitation to love.  Remember being a little kid and imagining conversations with people you admired and looked up to?  What an invitation to love.

Poem of the night: An Invitation by Shel Silverstein This is the opening to the collection Where the Sidewalk Ends, a book beloved to my sister, me, and now Abbie and Lily. If you are a dreamer, come in.