Here is a photo from our photo session in LA last month. The picture was taken by Kara Rush Photography. We really appreciated her patience with the kids! Matt's sister purchased a photo session with her for our entire family, and the deal includes digital copies that we've not yet been down to LA to pick up. Next week we are getting the disk with all the photos, but for now all I have is the one picture I lifted off the photographer's web page. She posted it with several safeguards to make it difficult to copy the image, so I'm posting it here in part to brag that I got it anyway.On another note I had a strange experience today. A young college graduate met with me to discuss the role of print press companies and thier relationship to professors. He knew way too much about me, ranging from my education to my family. I guess for the curious there is ample data available online. It is a weird world we live in when you can investigate somebody so thoroughly before ever meeting them. Perhaps it is the long overdue correction needed for the anonymity created by modern urbanity. Hundreds of years ago people behaved, in part, because they were part of a small community and everybody knew each other. In short, there was social accountability. With the advent of large cities we lost that. Maybe the recent rise of social media on the internet will help to recreate that lost mechanism of social control and encourage to think twice about anti-social behavior. Or maybe not.
