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aaron — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 16:16:04 +0000

So Sebastian has started singing. (Notice how I haven’t updated my blog in six months, and I’m acting like that’s not the case? Classy, huh?) That’s a lie. He has always been a singer. But now that he’s learned a lot of words, his singing sounds very different. It’s very soft and sweet, with the makings of a real melody. And his songs scatter in sounds from real words, but not necessarily whole words. He especially likes to sing in the back seat of the car while we’re driving. I imagine that’s kind of like his version of singing in the shower. Last night after I picked him up from my mom, who s staying at our empty condo until she and my stepdad can rebuild their flooded house, we were driving through River Plantation, looking at some of the piles of trash that still haven’t been picked up yet after the flood. He was singing so sweetly and peacefully in the backseat, reminding me how lucky I am that I get to be his dad. It made me reflect on what a ride all of this has been (The flood, fatherhood, marriage, life in general) and it made me tear up, thinking that amidst all of this devastation, I’ve seen more humanity and giving out of people, my community, my friends and neighbors, my family, than I ever have in my life. I see more than ever that Home isn’t a building, it’s a feeling. It’s friends and family. It’s whatever and wherever you define it to be.

2009 in Photos

aaron — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:45:34 +0000

Wow, these are amazing. I think my favorite is the one of the baseball pitcher.
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/12/2009_in_photos_part_1_of_3.html

Help Portrait on CNN

aaron — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:58:32 +0000

Help-Portrait

tinymusic — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:36:04 +0000

This is what Michelle and I will be doing tomorrow. Our friend Jeremy started this movement and it has now spread to include more than 6500 photographers with events in 58 countries around the world. And we will be serving with our friend Kevin in Robertson County, taking photos. Feeling very excited, nervous, humbled, blessed. In less than 24 hours, people all around the world will be getting their photo taken for the very first time.

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Sebo at the grocery store.

aaron — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:18:44 +0000

Simple.

aaron — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:02:10 +0000

http://www.howmanypeopleareinspacerightnow.com/

15 months

aaron — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 01:28:13 +0000

Sebo has been doing some things recently that are just blowing us away.

He has his own little chair and when he sits in it he puts his feet up on the ottoman.

He was holding two packs of plastic bowls, one in each hand. He wanted to also hold a pack of silver muffin tins. So he figured out he could stack both packs of bowls in one hand and grab the muffin tins with the other.

We have a child-proof device on our front doorknob. The other day he figured out how dismantle it. Then he proceeded to attempt putting it back together.

He turns on his sound machine before he goes to bed.

A couple weeks ago at his Granny’s house, he was watering the grass and his red fish-shaped watering can ran out of water. He picked up the hose and stuck it into the watering can to fill it up, but he noticed there was no water coming out of the hose. So he walked over to the house and tried to turn the water on.

We have watched him try to cheer up his uncle who was having a very hard day.

Every day he just keeps growing and advancing. It’s an amazing thing to watch!

Bert & Ernie & Gangsta Rap

aaron — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:02:36 +0000

Michelle found this the other day. It’s probably about the greatest single thing I’ve ever seen on the internet.

Art, etc.

aaron — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 03:06:49 +0000

We’ve been staying busy around here, as usual. I’m coming up on one year of working at home, for myself. And while its had its share of challenges, I feel extremely lucky be able to do it and be around Michelle and Sebo all day. But business is going very, very well. We have great clients!

As you might know, I began working with an art rep back around mid-June. She has been AMAZING, and in less than three months she has gotten my work in a number of new venues in Middle Tennessee, Chattanooga, Alabama, Florida, and California. I’m shipping to Chicago as soon as I can get the art painted, and there will be many more new places on the way.

Michelle and I are collaborating on a new show for the first time in 3 years. It will be called “Giant Scary Monsters” and it opens September 12th at Nashville’s Smallest Art Gallery. It’s going to be awesome! Be prepared to come to the opening and stand awkwardly on the sidewalk in front of the gallery which is, quite literally, a solar-powered box on the wall.

Finally, a new website is on the way. For both of us. For everything. Because we have time to design such things.

The Rescuer

aaron — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 02:43:16 +0000

I was walking the dogs this afternoon, and as I was looking up at the telephone poles along Post Road, a memory hit me. Sometime around the age of ten or so I had figured out what i wanted to be, not when I grew up, but pretty much right then. I wanted to rescue people. I wanted to wear my camouflage pants, my calculator watch, my green beret, and probably my canteen, and I wanted to rescue people. From what, I’m not sure, but bad guys would probably be involved. My transportation mode of choice? I figured, not yet being able to drive, that I could get by with a long rope, lassoing it around the tops of trees, buildings, and telephone poles, swinging my way through the countryside like Spider-Man, ready to help whoever needed it.

Didn’t happen.