Children
Weddings
Pirate Rendezvous Kids 2010
Pirate Rendezvous 2010
The Red Streak Warriors 2010
Babies
In Memory of Summer – {Maine Lifestyle Photographer}
Posted on December 10, 2009
The Winter Solstice is nearly upon us, there is snow on the ground and the cold wind is howling. However, these past couple of days I’ve taken a break from editing and decided to wander through some photos I took this past summer. It amazes me the drastic shift in each of the seasons, especially between summer and winter. The following images are of children, two of which are my own. Seeing the carefree spirit of the young ones really made me think of Kahlil Gibran “On Children.”
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children
as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might
that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies,
so He loves also the bow that is stable.
-Kahlil Gibran
Related posts:
- Various Images – {Maine Lifestyle Photographer}
- The Elements of Play – {Maine Lifestyle Photographer}
- Annabelle – {maine lifestyle photographer}
- Milkweed Magic – {Maine nature photographer}
- Maine, The Way Life Should Be
