I found this meme via Karen Schneider’s entry. Although I wasn’t explicitly tagged, I thought it was interesting enough to add an entry to the meme’s Flikr pool.
With all due respect to Karen — and I agree that a love of reading is important — but it is a sense of wonder that encourages a love of reading and all sorts of other critical character traits. This is a picture of my daughter when she was about three years old. She is on the back deck of our Connecticut house watching a caterpillar crawl up our gate. She loves to read (and now three years later is reading scores of books on horses and dolphins from the elementary school library), and as her father I hope the same sense of curiosity will sustain her love for reading, arts, sciences, and life.
Since I wasn’t tagged, I’m not inflicting the meme on anyone else.
(This post was updated on 03-May-2008.)
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Hopefully the “tagging” part of the meme is the least important. I almost left three “free tags” but then hunted around to find people who I read who I consider deep and wonderful thinkers/writers. That includes you, but I honestly didn’t imagine you writing such a personal post — it’s very touching!
(meaning, hunted for people who aren’t widely-read–Roy of course being an exception :> )
Your instincts are correct, Karen. A personal post like this is definitely out of character for me and DLTJ. I was moved by the previous contributions, though (isn’t that part of the point of a good meme?) — moved enough to overcome inhibitions of family privacy desires. Besides, it is one of my most favorite pictures of my daughter, and I couldn’t help but share it.
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