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Thursday
Oct262006
Love is the best teacher
October 26, 2006
I'm writing this just a few hours before we drop Chinua off at the airport in Seattle, where he'll fly to Israel for two weeks. This week when I was thinking about love I came back to these photos, the photos of a father teaching his son what he loves to do best.
Chinua came by music naturally; he grew up with a conga-playing father and an African dancing mother. He started by playing piano, then one day when he was in the park he witnessed the portable nature of a guitar and decided, "I'm sticking to the wrong instrument." He has since come out with the most beautiful music I've ever heard, acoustic stories, as he calls them, calling beauty out of the simplicity of a guitar.
Now he is passing this gift of music along, and Kai soaks up the love of his father as teacher like a sponge.
Happy Love Thursday. Visit Chookooloonks to play along.
Chinua came by music naturally; he grew up with a conga-playing father and an African dancing mother. He started by playing piano, then one day when he was in the park he witnessed the portable nature of a guitar and decided, "I'm sticking to the wrong instrument." He has since come out with the most beautiful music I've ever heard, acoustic stories, as he calls them, calling beauty out of the simplicity of a guitar.
Now he is passing this gift of music along, and Kai soaks up the love of his father as teacher like a sponge.
Happy Love Thursday. Visit Chookooloonks to play along.
Reader Comments (8)
This is beautiful. I can hear the love just by looking at the pictures.
Oh my...so much love in that picture...and a reeeeelly good looking man, if you don't mind me saying!
That's very beautiful. Music is a very good connection.
Those pictures are beautiful. I've been visiting your blog for awhile now, and you (?) take the most gorgeous pictures! What kind of camera do you use?
I always forget to give photo credits. These are mine, yesterdays were Chinua's. It's a little confusing, since I go back and forth between my pictures and Chinua's.
We take pictures on a Canon D. It's a digital SLR, a great camera that we bought to use for wedding photography, but have used a lot more for thousands of pictures of our kids!
Aw, that is so sweet... a father teaching his son.
I love the photos!!
Beautiful, beautiful family, and beautiful, beautiful photos. Thanks so much for participating!
K.
Wow, I really like these photos rachel.