Perspective and Narrative
Once a week, my wife and our older children are involved in activities with a youth group from our church. Our youngest and I stay home and we have “party night.”
He’s young, so party night typically consists of a trip to a convenience store to get some sugary treat then an evening of being silly together. A few weeks ago, we remixed part of the soundtrack of one of his favorite games using just our voices. (Neither one of us is an accomplished singer, by the way.) We laughed a lot and took a measure of pride in what we created. It was really bad, but we had so much fun doing it, and we learned a bit about how to use SoundBridge and OBS to mix audio then add it to a video.
I have five children whom I love very much. I feel like I have a fairly solid relationship with each of my kids. I hope that will always be the case. I imagine that is the hope for most parents.
I explained the concept of party night to a friend and he told me that those hours together will be a defining characteristic for my youngest for his entire life. Again, I certainly hope that’s the case.
Let’s step into the future a decade or so and look back with two different perspectives on party night from my youngest’s point of view. (This little exercise, of course, only represents two perspectives — from a vast number of possible perspectives — from which…
