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| Work happens anywhere London, ON April 2023 This photo originally shared on Instagram |
Yet I keep coming back to it, because like so many seemingly ordinary photos in the photo roll, it tells a story.
Our daughter had class, so after a busy early morning of interviews from the home studio, off we went to campus. Parenthood can be a gruelling marathon in some ways, but it also offers up a lot of gifts - and time alone with my kid while we cruise the quiet streets is one of them.
We’ll talk about anything, everything, or even nothing at all. And if I can make her laugh by the time we leave our neighborhood behind, so much the better. Because soon enough she’ll be on to her next chapter.
On this particular morning, an early meeting meant I wouldn’t have enough time to get back to the home office. So a grocery store parking lot became my temporary office as I hotspotted off of my iPhone and connected with colleagues across town and halfway around the world.
Great work got done thanks to Microsoft Teams, an unlimited data plan, and a backpack filled with technology that lets us work magic from anywhere. As we finished the meeting and I prepared to head for home, I paused to reflect on the wonder of simple moments like this, and our privilege in experiencing them.
So, no, the pixels here, backlit by a relentlessly grey sky and underscored by crumbling pavement and hasty composition, aren’t remotely spectacular. But they don’t always need to be.
They can just as easily serve as dusty signposts to everyday moments we’d rather hold onto for a little while longer.
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