[family|child] On the nature of time and generations
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That’s a photo of my Dad in Outer Mongolia, in 1992, when I and a group of friends and family went to see my parents there. (He was the U.S. ambassador to that country at the time.) Dad was 49 when we visited then. I just turned 49 this past Thursday.
Sometimes when I look at the_child
It is the job of parents to go before their children. We break a trail for them through time, setting a path so they have something to rebel against, and if we’re lucky, eventually a guide to follow. the_child
The cycle of the generations proves to me that time isn’t linear, it’s cyclical, at least according to the secret calendars of the soul.
Photos © 1992, 2013, Joseph E. Lake, Jr. and T. Rotundo.
This work by Joseph E. Lake, Jr. and T. Rotundo is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
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Absolutely fascinating. You have such similar profiles. Your beards are even have the same graying pattern. Xxx
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Mongolia looks like Oklahoma. And you look like your Dad.
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And you are the Ambassador to Inner Mongolia.
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Our multigenerational household has been feeling these “fixed points in time” as I think of them. Thanks for articulating this from your family’s experience.
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