We Interrupt This Program……
photo by kristen cronin
Dear Cooper:
Today, I’m supposed to be typing another post in a series, and for the first time I’m going to admit that I don’t have it in me. I’d rather commune with you. I’ll let you in on a secret.
It’s because you showed me your truck.
Skype is brilliant that way. Buzzing you is like a trip through a worm hole riding a ribbon of crack. You paste your face to the screen. You laugh. You zip around the room like the camera is a spotlight that will follow you wherever you go. You scoot your truck across the padded jigsaw floor and shriek tucktucktuck!
When I press ‘end’, I’m spent from trying to keep up, but I don’t care. Talking to you makes me happy, because you just love life. Everybody who meets you is a person who could love you, and you don’t really care about all their baggage. You just embrace living with the awestruck wonder the whole game beats out of me sometimes.
Don’t ever let living get the best of you. Listen to the people who add layers of texture and color to your life, who challenge you to take the high road, who lift up your dreams and help you soar. Tune all the rest of it out as needless noise……BECAUSE IT IS.
And, when all else fails, charm the heck out of everyone by preening with your truck.
I love you.
Andra
Well you did have it in you, did you not. It all comes down to intentions. Loved reading it!
Shakti
Thanks, Shakti. Sometimes, we just have to follow our inspirations, don’t we?
Very nice, I always enjoy seeing pics of Cooper by Kristen.
He is quite a little ham.
Oh, what a cutie, and what a precious post, Andra! I know what you mean about Skype. When Sara and I first got together, Sara was splitting her time between Lexington and Bangkok. If it weren’t for Skype, we wouldn’t have survived. Granted there was no video back then, but it was FREE TALK!
Great post, my friend.
Hugs,
Kathy
Glad this post brought back a good memory for you, Kathy. It amazes me how far that technology has come.
Wonderful, Andra. He’s a lucky little guy
I’m lucky, too.
Awww. He sounds just adorable. I’m glad you can be a part of his life through skype!
I’d love to be able to go up and see him again. Sigh. Maybe sometime in the fall.
I feel the love….it’s all over you like a poison ivy rash (not that I’m wishing a poison ivy rash on you). Sweetness.
It amazes me how therapeutic making faces and waving can be.
I agree.
I’m in catch-up mode…reading just one post after another (first you and then some others), but I have to interject here….making faces and laughing at/with little kids is one of my favorite activities…I smile and wink at them in the supermarket, at restaurants, wherever the opportunity presents. Just yesterday, at the eye doctor’s office, there was an absolutely beautiful, red-haired, one year old, grinning from ear to ear right after they sat down across from me, and he was still grinning when we left; absolutely infectious and VERY inexpensive medicine for whatever ails you!
Cooper has that same effect!
I just got back from meeting my friend Kristin’s son Bodie (different friend than Cooper’s mom.) He’s an adorable little ginger baby. So, I’ve definitely made my heart feel better in the past week. They have that talent, don’t they?
I can totally see you doing that wherever you go, Karen. I bet kids love you.
Fabulous, as always.
“Listen to the people who add layers of texture and color to your life, who challenge you to take the high road, …”
We need way more of those people today. Glad you’re passing this on to Cooper.
I don’t know how well I’m passing anything, but I enjoy trying.
He would derail me, too, Andra
I know parents bemoan watching their children get bigger, but I cannot WAIT for him to be able to talk. He is going to be so funny.
You and Kate need to introduce Cooper to Big Al . . . via Skype. What a hoot that “play date” would be.
Oh my. Wouldn’t it be a riot?
If you do somehow figure out how to get Big Al and Cooper together I want in on that conference call! LOL! What a picture I’ve already put in my head, Andra! Your delight in this little guy thrills me, and I’m not employing hyperbole. I just wish every little person getting their start in life could have an “Auntie Andra” in their corner. The world would change! Oh if only someone who loved me had given me the same advice and then taught me how to live it! Bless you! Debra
The teaching someone how to live it is the tough part. Advice is easy. For much of my working career, I’ve been paid for my advice. Maybe a sliver of it was taken.
I somehow picture a skype session between Big Al and Cooper as a frenetic bunch of running around.
I know Cooper won’t stand still in front of the screen for more than a few nanoseconds……..
Awesome post Andra. Such a cute picture. As for the noise….. there is a LOT of noise out in the world. Social Media comes to mind for some reason. LOL Love you guys bunches.
Kristen has such an eye. I love her photography, whether of Cooper or anything else. And, social media was exactly the noise to which I was referring. It’s a cesspool right now.
Nice, Andra… and I hope you get ‘it’ back in you very soon!
“It” is all going to an off-the-blog project right now, Tom. I hope I’ll have lots to say about that very soon.
Very sweet. And he likes trucks! Good kid. Does he know there is a river here named after him?
I’m sure he does. His grandmother sent him a postcard from the Aquarium.
Very wise sentiments. It never fails to amaze me just how much little ones can teach us.
They are very wise little souls, aren’t they?