Sunday, February 2, 2014

Viva la Revolution!


Dear Ellie,

It’s hard not to analyze your every little move.  To garner from it some glimmer of your personality.  I wonder whether your mother and I do this because we’re afraid it may be the only chance we get to know the person that you are and, more importantly, the person that you could be. 

For instance, you have this thing you do.  Every once in awhile, you pump both arms beside your chest, then you raise a clenched fist into the air.  “Viva la revolution!”  A dissident, are we?  I think I like it.  Just remember, question authority just enough to change the world, but not so much that you don’t do everything your parents tell you to!  

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  2. She's doing the Ronnie James Dio devil horns fist pump. A true metal head in the making :)

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  3. We caught her in a photo doing the first pump. We'll add it pretty soon.

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  4. Not a metal head, a social revolutionary.

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  5. Yes, what Chris said. Metal Heads just sing about the reinvention of society. Ellie is a doer, though.

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