Lady of the Lake: mars 2011

måndag 21 mars 2011

teen issues

When my brother was in his teens he used to walk either 3 m infront of, or 3 m behind, our parents. I'm six years older than him and by that time I had already forgotten about my own adolescent behavior. I doubt it was that much different from his.

When my cousin was about to get married, and we prepared for the wedding, we were all devastated by my brother's haircut. Or the lack of haircut, really, but would he visite the hairdressers? - No.

I'm a social councellor. I work with all age groups, but mostly young people. I'm ok at what I do. My adepts seldome despise me. Yet, when it comes to my own son, who is now thirteen... I must be the most embarrassing mother in the whole wide world. On the world wide web too, he will claim after this blogpost right here. He will also roll his eyes and then with a heavy sigh notify me of the fact that his dad is not much better, nor his grandparents and that we all need to realize the world has changed since the fall of the Roman Empire...

So, what do I do, after embarrassing the kid infront of his peers by simply being my own silly self? (that is breathing, looking, saying hello... or merely excisting as evidence he was once an infant...) Well, I apologize. I tell him I meant no harm. That I'm not yet as well educated in being the parent of a teenager, that he needs to give me instructions for the rules applied to his areena, that I need some time to adjust to the new standards... and that I love him.

All of this is true. Those last words I would of course have to whisper. Or say only when no-one's listening. Not with too much affection, either. Just... hint... actually.

After that I would probably suggest we'd make chicken sticks for dinner.

söndag 13 mars 2011

underwater

British artist and avid diver Jason DeCaires Taylor is unwilling to accept the prediction that 80% of coral reefs will be lost by 2050. His latest project in the ocean near Cancun, "The Silent Evolution", is a series of over 400 underwater sculptures of human figures which are based off of photographs of real people. Taylor views the statues as a metaphor for the evolution of human life, but they also exist as part of actual marine life, operating as an artificial reef.