When my husband was a little kid, he built wonderful Lego spaceships with his dad. (He’s still got those very ships, too, lovingly arranged in a display case in our house.) Now he’s a dad, and he builds all sorts of wacky stuff with our son. There are massive structures that go whoosh around the house, and there’s also a great deal of kid-generated storytelling, with Star Wars mini-figs and happy trees and little pizza-and-ice-cream parties.
I suspect that our friend Martin — a champion of our Weekend Projects, a parent, and a Lego fan himself — experiences some of the same things. And there’s so much love in this dreamy shot, which he made for the Freelensing project. Whatever the tools are, whatever the tactile language involves, we can find an almost mythic resonance in the way things are shared over time. And some of the best things in our childhoods, remembered and re-experienced, add layers of joy in our grownup lives.
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