families

at school this week we drew family portraits. (someone's guess as to what a family portrait might be was "a family sitting on a porch".)

such a miraculous thing to see how what they make of a direct prompt. these sorts of things are usually not my thing, i don't like to guide the Littles through tasks where they make something recognizable. but in this circumstance, owing to a larger project in the near future, it had to be done (to my dislike.) but! beautiful things happened, and i silently cheered on those who put down abstracted shapes and broken lines to represent family members because of the way those people felt and seemed.

so we have energies and personalities translated into lines and colors. something adults pay tuition and hard sweat to learn, or to reconnect with, struggling all the while. but those under five years old? for them it just flows.