Jump With Me Higher!
Filed Under (Adam, Joy) by Estee on 15-06-2010
This is the phrase that Adam begs of us when he wants to jump.
Here is a video of Adam that his dad taped which may just put a smile on your face as much as it does mine. This is the kind of exhilaration I think we all need at least once a day!
I haven’t put music to it yet. I was thinking of the song When You’re Smilin’ by Louis Armstrong. Then again, I sort of like it without any music at all.
ESTÉE KLAR
TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA
Writer.Curator of Art. Founder of The Autism Acceptance Project. Mother of Adam. I like to write about our journey, musings, attitudes towards autism.
Is it just me, or is Adam jumping in slow motion?
You are not imagining…it is in slow motion. It sort of reminds me of 8 mm home movies (I am telling my age now) except that it doesn’t have that old projector sound.
When films are silent added with this slow motion effect, we get all kinds of feelings that don’t need music, I think. Time passing; watching Adam slowly also enables us to see things we otherwise miss.
I also like the blackberry or phone photograph. I like them when they capture people in movement, blurred, yet it’s captured in one single moment. We know time is passing and we are nostalgic, yet, we can linger and linger on this artifact of people and time.
I think you’re much more able to relax than I. Generally, time feels like its burning to me–like a wick burning too quckly. The only times I’m really able to get away from that feeling is when I lose myself in my work, when I’m driving, or when I’m asleep. Even my time with my boys is clouded by the impression that there is more to do than there is time in a day.
Oddly enough, or perhaps not so oddly after all, it seems I was able to accomplish a lot more when everything didn’t feel so urgent. I still haven’t figured out how to get back to that, but I’m hoping taking the next two days off for a party will help.
Now that really captures his rapture in motion.