Written and published on 9 May 2021
Dear Ones,
Here are two adaptions of a photo I found touching. It has to do with fatherhood. Those are my Dad’s boots on the left, and me on the right, and he that held the camera.
If you look closely at the third photo, which is a ‘markup’, you can see a gnome on the ground, looking up at me. It looks like a friendly gnome, but serious, in the way of all the gnomes I have run across so far …

Image: “Dad’s Boots 1,” adapted and compiled by Alice B. Clagett, 9 May 2021, CC BY-SA 4.0, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com … CREDIT: From a photo by the late Hugh C. Clagett in 1948.
Image: “Dad’s Boots 1,” adapted and compiled by Alice B. Clagett, 9 May 2021, CC BY-SA 4.0, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com … CREDIT: From a photo by the late Hugh C. Clagett in 1948.

Image: “Dad’s Boots 2,” adapted and compiled by Alice B. Clagett, 9 May 2021, CC BY-SA 4.0, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com … CREDIT: From a photo by the late Hugh C. Clagett in 1948.
Image: “Dad’s Boots 2,” adapted and compiled by Alice B. Clagett, 9 May 2021, CC BY-SA 4.0, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com … CREDIT: From a photo by the late Hugh C. Clagett in 1948.
The Gnome on the Ground

Image: “Dad’s Boots 3-Markup: The Gnome on the Ground,” adapted and compiled by Alice B. Clagett, 9 May 2021, CC BY-SA 4.0, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com … CREDIT: From a photo by the late Hugh C. Clagett in 1948.
Image: “Dad’s Boots 3-Markup: The Gnome on the Ground,” adapted and compiled by Alice B. Clagett, 9 May 2021, CC BY-SA 4.0, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com … CREDIT: From a photo by the late Hugh C. Clagett in 1948.
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In love, Light, and joy,
I Am of the Stars
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