Do kids make you boring?
I have a ton of photos and videos of Tin this weekend. He’s been walking around with his drum stick on his shoulder getting down to what he imagines is his TROMBONE. We watched a bunch of YouTube clips of Trombone Shorty, who started playing at 4 years of age, and he gets so jazzed when he sees Troy that he cradles his drumstick right on his shoulder and starts his imaginary playing.
My computer crashed so I can’t post any of these pics or movies right now.
My neighbor who is a musician and a music therapist and was watching Tin watching Troy and she said, “No doubt, he’s got it in him.” I watched him running around the house, hearing music in his head, running his fingers up and down the drumsticks and here’s what I thought – someone wrote kids make you boring about bloggers and writers whose kids become their subjects – but I have to say that bearing witness to this little boy as he becomes who he is, grow into the man he will be, and find his talent is possibly one of the most exciting things I could testify to.
Call me boring.
October 25th, 2010 at 1:11 pm
Nothing wrong with boring. I agree with your bearing witness thesis.