An uplifting video, for a change.

Roper — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:34:00 GMT

On Saturday, we brought the girls to a first birthday party for our friends' son at a local indoor play gym. Among the guests was another set of twin sisters, a few months older than our girls. The four of them ended up playing together a bit, started up a spontaneous, non-adult-prompted game of Ring-Around-the-Rosy (led by future head cheerleader and premature all-fall-down-er Elsa), and we managed to take what may be one of the world's cutest kids-at-play videos ever.

I debated whether or not to post it here, because I didn't really have any kind of story or commentary to go along with it (and you know how I do like to go on...) Then, tonight, I was catching up with the news and finally saw some of the images from that horrible video of Neda Soltani dying in the street in Tehran, and I realized that that video was being taken at almost exactly the same time we were taking ours, to the hour. Maybe to the minute.

I'm still not sure I have much of anything to say about this -- nothing I can articulate too well, anyway. Just that 1.) The world is a terrible place. 2.) The world is a beautiful place. 3.) The older I get, the more it blows and boggles my mind how it can be both things, so fiercely, at once.

It's one of those mysteries that, before long, I'll have to start trying to explain to my children, and I know I won't be able to provide them with satisfactory answers. (Who can?)

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An uplifting video, for a change.