Derrick
received a camera for his 12th birthday. He has always loved taking
pictures and videos, and is regularly talking about what it would look like to
make his own movie. Maybe some day he will be able to tell his own stories. I
have enjoyed as his baba watching him grow, mature, and his view of the world
continue to shift and change. This is a reflection that I wrote the day after
he received his camera as I watched his take some pictures.
The boy got a camera
for his birthday and his face lit up as he realized the fun he was going to
have. He immediately took the lens cap off, turned the camera on, and put it up
to his face. His one brown eye now staring out into the world through a
different kind of lens.
He took picture of
family, his brothers, and friends. He tried the video and flash, quickly becoming
familiar with a new way of viewing things. His new view was limited, he could
not see as much through this new lens like he could with an unfettered eye. But
maybe this new lens provided a different type of focus as he looked out onto
the world.
His camera and him
will grow up together, what things will they be able to tell the world as a boy,
becoming a man starts to see anew?
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