December 19 2012
I love this photograph. It’s a reminder that there are two very distinct holiday seasons. There’s the thoughtful, spiritual season of long and quiet contemplative nights full of traditional music — a time when folks gather with family and loved ones to quietly celebrate their religious heritage. And there’s the riotous, sugar-fed psychosis of children — a time of sensory overload and wild noise, of deliriously ecstatic outbursts of near-manic careening around the house.
We need both. We need both, but at different points in our lives. As adults we need those moments of comfort and reflection, because sometimes all that gets us through the day is the promise that we will eventually find a place of stillness. As children we need that anarchic tumult, because sometimes we’re so full of joyous energy that if we don’t release it we’re convinced we will burst open like a well-struck pinata.
As adults we tend to cherish the quietness of the holiday season and we forget that kids have a biological imperative to occasionally go completely bat-shit crazy.
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