I’ve been thinking a lot about connections lately, and how you can’t always perceive the connections between things. For example, if someone holds a long string in the middle, the ends will hang down. If you just look at (or photograph) the bottom of the strings, they look like two separate strings. If you are able to hold the whole picture in your view (by moving back or using a wider angle lens), only then can you see than the strings are actually connected. I often feel like that about some of the photographs I make. I believe they are connected but I can’t see how or where yet. I was actually going to mention this the other day in my things I’ve been thinking about post, but I forgot.

Three days after I mentally composed a paragraph something like the above but forgot to write it down, my five-year-old asked me to help him tie his front-end loader onto his fire truck so it could be transported to the garage (apparently it’s broken down). He told me he had two strings and he held them up to me in such a way that I only saw one string, held in the middle by his thumb and forefinger.

I said, “No you only have one string.”

And then he showed me two.

I got chills. Maybe some things AREN’T connected after all.