As you read several excerpts in the next few weeks from the internationally known M.I.L.K. project (which is my soulful inspiration of being a photographer to creating my imagery), I hope this allows you to take away something.
” Family is the last and greatest discovery. It is our last miracle.
It’s a sad reality that we’ve entered this new millennium shorn of wisdom, with the same appalling ignorance with which we entered the last: old men still send young men off to die in silly wars; countries are still run by politicians with the kind of ice-cold smiles that keep kids up at night; we still invent numerous ways to gas, annihilate, shoot, maim, kill and destroy each other.
Yet none of those things equals the power of a child’s trembling, tapping fingers on a sleeping papa’s face. No bomb can destroy the memory of the sweet smell of a mama’s breast. No amount of Internet access can replicate the freckle-faced grin of your kid brother who’s missing two front teeth.
Family is the last line of reason in a world that still allows 125 million children to go to bed hungry every night. Without it, we are all a tribe of nomads, cut adrift, disconnected, wandering the earth with neither time nor place nor history to give our aching souls a home.
We’re being globalized to death, our souls and history plagiarized by anxious souls angling for a share of the percentage, while our families and tribes and cultures slowly and quietly vanish.
The imagery in M.I.L.K. (or any photographic imagery), reach beyond the atrocity of mindless developers and nameless corporations who sandbag our world, building faceless modular homes and bulldozing trails and forests that once held dirt, sweat, toil, wildlife and children’s footprints. They chronicle what lasts and will always last; a mother’s love, a grandpa’s pride, a child’s giggle, a father’s sorrow. Family love is stronger than steel and concrete. Family love is like the wind; instinctive, raw, fragile, beautiful, at times angry, but always unstoppable. It is our collective breath. It is the world’s greatest force.”
p.s. you both are going to have alot of love for those twins your bringing into the world! See you soon!
