Sun! Fun! Run! Done!!!!!!

This boy of mine, who arrived 7 years prior to this picture, is full of joy on this rare, sunny, early spring day. Attila, feeling inspired, has the classical air guitar as he jumped down from the stone bench, by the old oak.

He played well with his siblings and also with the children of a dear friend. Tag, chasing around the park, with laughter and glee, and swinging the younger children on the chained tire were some of the delights of that afternoon.

My sensitive one is still coming into his own, learning the unspoken rules of others and the community. Discerning friend from foe, and more cloudy, the ever present acquaintance. He is getting to know himself and that he is loved.

One day, while meeting with a colleague, there was a firedrill at his school. We went outside, and I happened to watch his class file out, and most of the students were playing, but he did not, and it made me smile. If nothing else, time and place are important concepts, and he was just lovely, and more so, because he did not know I was near, and therefore it was not for show. What will this creative, sensitive boy with a strong name do with his life?