{"id":25360,"date":"2019-12-05T08:14:21","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T14:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=25360"},"modified":"2019-12-04T12:37:53","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T18:37:53","slug":"the-poignancy-of-growing-children-and-the-dangers-of-poignant-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/05\/the-poignancy-of-growing-children-and-the-dangers-of-poignant-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"The Poignancy Of Growing Children and the Dangers of Poignant Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"

So my boys’ school has a program that pairs kids from higher grades with kids from lower grades for a bit of story time and crafts. The program is called Big Friend\/Little Friend.<\/p>\n

So one of the the Christmas projects is a candle holder wherein the urchins paste some tissue paper squares on glass.<\/p>\n

In his 2nd grade year, he made a little one when he was a little friend. We put it on the little mirror shelf that is the only real repository for knick-knacks and figurines at Nogglestead. It’s been up there ever since with a collection of little candles we’ve acquired in various places.<\/p>\n

Now, in his 6th grade year, he’s on the Big Friend side of the equation, and he made another with his Little Friend. However, as he was older, he grabbed a Mason jar instead of a little votive.<\/p>\n

I thought it would make a poignant photo of how the boys are growing.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

I was going to end with a quip about how I hope the youngest does not expect the Mason jar to go on display as well, but in picking up the small votive, it broke<\/em>. I have picked it up to dust it once or twice in the last four years (maybe three times), but when I grasped it by the lip of the votive, the glass broke and was only held together by the tissue paper. So even the small votive won’t be on display. <\/p>\n

So, suddenly, we’ve gotten a different life lesson from this act of photography. I’m not sure what it is. Tempus Fugit<\/em>, and whatever the Latin is for “sometimes in setting up the artifice of a photo to illustrate life lessons on my little-read blog creates its own bad lessons.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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