what 2,485 days looks like
Written on May 28, 2008
a few weeks ago dylan’s mother called me to say that everyone wanted to do an update to our mirror picture from 2001 that’s in the hearts book. it turns out dylan and his family were going to be visiting mario in camarillo on memorial day and we took that as a perfect opportunity to duplicate our previous efforts. it’s funny to see the difference – amazing, and funny and strange. bill commented that it looks not so much like the kids grew up, but rather like i shrunk. mario also got some fuzzy dice and a ceiling fan. i love that dylan has roughly the same expression, and mario has roughly the same shorts! dylan had just graduated high school a few days before, mario and ali are starting their senior years of high school in the fall. i wisely lost the silly goatee, but still need a haircut, as always.
taking into account a leap year (there was only one, right?) i figure there are two thousand four hundred and eighty-five days separating these two pictures.
ali was hanging out with us, too, and all three of them were fairly engrossed in the $5000 or so worth of high end consumer electronics that mario had just received from the make a wish foundation. actually, to be fair, mario and dylan were engrossed in the giant flat screen TV and playstation 3, while ali simply text messages every fifteen seconds.
for myself it seemed a fitting way to spend memorial day. the kids signed my book, we took some pictures, we talked some about their friends from camp who’ve passed away, and the thing i was struck with is that i’ll probably – if i’m lucky – be involved with these families my whole life. i’m dumbstruck at how far we’ve all come already. i wonder what it will be like in another two thousand four hundred eighty five days?
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wow .. I’m blown away (been blown away for quite some time now, to be honest. been a long-time fan of yours. truly inspirational.)
i love these pictures of the three of you…and the one including ali…i want to see more….
I truly feel blessed to have read your book. I had the opportunity to receive it from my daughter Kaaren Hegquist, who was involved with this treasure through CSH Lab.
To see these young men & women growing into beautiful individuals before our eyes through your photographics is amazing. Keep us up to date with new pics of them!
I love the pictures! Can it be possible, everyone has grown up and yet so much the same. What a lovely record.
i love this. amazing.
happy to have discovered your blog. I am crazy about those top 2 photos. Wow. Thanks for sharing.
seriously that day was awesome. i had so much fun. standing there looking at the three of you in the mirror was so wierd i just thought back to how long we have known you and how much you have always been in our lives..i think its awesome. i dont know its like we are all family and always will be. you guys come way before anything. oh yeah and max i went and saw iron maiden and anthrax it was sickkkkkk!!!! some kids from camp were there too.
Great update on the picture Max! Again, great to meet you at the national Adult Congenital Heart Association Conference in May.
(Max took some great shots of chders there too. I especially love the one of John buttoning his jacket and then actually being ready for the picture. I’ve known John for 3 years and you totally captured his quiet, dignified, precise way of being that when ones take a moment to really look at is quite powerful and passionate in it’s own way.)
It does look like you and the room shrunk and the boys stayed the same except that their hair grew! Seriously though, the goatee was not totally ill-advised. It makes you look older in a good way.