Since IF and IFN have been so atrocious lately (hackery in extremis, why don't we just call it Illustration Photoshop Filter Friday already?), I've decided to forego their pleasures this week. Instead this is my nephew Shawn, who turns two on December 3rd. Like most of us, he likes to ram things into his mouth, throw fits and hit people. Children are our future!
People are always telling me that my work is too dark. So I've put up this sunnier story, but even it has a shadow, as its original publisher – a fine Atlantic Canadian literary magazine called the Gaspereau Review – is no longer in business. ---------------- It was a simple enough thing and that thing was simply this: Edmund Kelley was a gentleman. Of course his mom called him her 'little gentleman', as in 'Oh Edmund, you are my perfect little gentleman,' which did seem to hold to a certain logic that these type of things often follow, considering her affection for him and the fact that he was, after all, only ten years old. Still, Edmund himself was not particularly fond of the diminutive aspect of that title. Gentleman was enough; gentleman summed up the whole thing rather nicely, thank you. He was definitely a more refined version of your average child. He lived in a state of perpetual Sunday m
Cute phtotos - the one with the sweetcorn loaded first - it was quite a surprise...
ReplyDeleteI thought maybe it was you - as a two year old
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yes, but does he eat that corn across? or round and round? that's how you can truly tell what the future will bring.
ReplyDeleteespecially when they are 3~~~!
ReplyDeletevery cute baby..
haha, too funny picture and description !
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