i sat in the park today for a few hours – reading, listening to music, laying there – watching people coming and going, walking slowly, jogging, dogs barking, babies crying.

a mother pushed a pram – then laid out a blanket under a tree and sat herself and her baby son down on it – she hugged him and kissed him and talked to him. i really wanted to take a picture of this moment and for somehow to give it to the kid when he had grown up, a picture of an unforced, unrehearsed moment between his mother and him. a little while later they look up and wave. the father arrives. i always look at how couples greet each other, i guess wondering how a relationship evolves when there is something as crazy as a kid around. the man and woman held hands, he then leaned down and kissed the baby on the head and then her on the lips. they stayed for a little bit and then all three continued with their evening.

i didn’t take any pictures in the park this evening.