Naomi

A wonderful capture! I'm sure you're the best b'day present he could ask for. :D

hee. he wrote this to me in a recent email: "the best gift i could have gotten is to feel i was a good father for you. :)"

the photo of your father & the moth is so beautiful.
happy birthday to him.

*NODS* ~ that's the one I like/am drawn to also. He had lovely, wild-curly hair when he was younger...beautiful. :)

he looks like an amazing person.

he truly is.

Wonderful pictures. It must be so great to be raised by an artist.. His paintings look beautiful, too.

It was a beautiful and wild experience, I wouldn't change my childhood for the world.

I hope he reads these comments, he's always so self-deprecating about his paintings. I love them. I miss living in a house with every spare bit of wall-space covered in paintings.

wow, the both of you are pretty awesome.

blush! thank you.

He seems to be a truly happy person.
Those are great memories.

He has had bouts of the typical depression and self-doubt that afflicts most artists, but he also has an immensely silly and positive side to him and a real love for life.

your dad seems like he's probably pretty wonderful. and he also aged really well, i think he must be a fantastic person to be around. no wonder you made such a post full of love, he must be a great father. :)

i'm chris, i thought your journal was interesting so i added you. i hope you and your father both had a good day and got to spend it together if possible.

I'm sure he will be chuffed to read the compliments. :) He is a wonderful father.

hi, Chris. thank you! :)

everything and everyone looking positively lovely : )

were you born in seattle ? or just lived there as a child?

I was born in Spokane (eastern wa), but grew up in Seattle and the San Juan Islands. A tiny 1-mile by 2-mile island where we happened to be the only 3 of 6 people who lived there year-round. I believe everyone should have that experience, it can really change the way you view the world and life -- for the better, I think.

I'm gonna go off an have a good cry now.

I will be in Seattle late November. We should hook up. :)

the man behing Snarg and Naomi... revealed!

great post... reminded me of my own pops.

I guess you can see now where the style for snarg came from. His paintings are like analogue snarg, I miss having them on my walls.

I loved that video you posted of you and your father. I hope you don't mind that I saved it.

Great photos!

I love your Dad's artwork. Really interesting stuff.

I hope he reads that, he can be self-deprecating when it comes to his artwork.

I recently put up some of his drawings/watercolours in our flat, I will post photos of them soon.

What a wonderful photo journey! Thank you for posting it.

thank you for reading. :)

this is the most powerful entry i've read in a long time. d17.jpg & d04.jpg are great.

thank you, I was sad to read about your relationship with your father (or lack thereof). I feel blessed to have the parents that I do; they are so open, accepting, and full of talent and life. As I was growing up they became kind of surrogate parents for my friends who didn't have a great homelife. My longest/closest friend, Becca, still calls them "mom" and "dad".

funny you should say that; my father played bass in a band, I have fond memories of banging away at the drum set when he was at practise. As for my mother, she dated Robert Smith after my parents divorced.

aw, thank you! :)

The photographs of your dad made me think of Marc Bolan, both in simular looks and in creative tallent. Thats what popped into my head looking at these, along with how special your memories are. Thank you for sharing those with us.

Your dad fucking rocks. He strikes me as the most amazing person I've come across in my 10 years online, despite the fact that our lives have crossed so little. Peace and wellbeing to him and to all your clan.

Oops. That should have gone one level up. Whatever. I'm drunk. The world is very good.

(but all the above still very much applies, not just the booze talking)

I like this a lot.

Not just for the insight to your dad. Great guy as he seems to be. But also for the insight into you, over the years.

* How many of these did you take?

* Who's the other Naomi? (In the dinghy, "Naomi, Dad, and Naomi, Sinclair Island, 1989")

* His photo of you in 1997 is wonderful.

Anyway... all of these go into the folder of your stuff I particularly like.

(my own dad died when i was seven. i have only one photo of him, from an old passport)

Let's see, first most of these were taken by my step-mom, Gael. The ones I took were the Antwerp photos (which came out over-exposed, sadly), the one of him at a friend's wedding, in the car, and going back to Sinclair. Here are some freaky self-portraits he took of himself years ago.

The other Naomi was a girl I became friends with "in town". She was very sweet and shy, but unfortunately had an abusive father. One day social services took her away to a foster family and I never saw her again. I still often think about her and hope that she is happier now.

1997 was wonderful. One of the happiest years of my life, experiencing Europe for the first time.

I am sorry to hear of your own father passing away. Do you remember very much about him? I can't even think about my own father passing away.

so nice to see some older fotos of you! :)

your dad seems like an amazing person... and you look so much like your mom!!

It's funny, now that I'm older I can really see how I have taken after my parents (in personality and appearance). I have my dad's curls and lips and my mom's nose and bone structure. In mannerisms I take after my step-mom the most, to the point where even though we don't look similar we're asked if we're related all the time. :)