Department of   Instruction and Teacher Education

Mac H. Brown, Ed.D. Professor Department of Instruction and Teacher Education College of Education University of South Carolina USC Child Development Research Center 207 Columbia, SC 29208 803.777.6230 803.777.7970 (fax) MBrown@gwm.sc.edu

A Photographic Essay and Poem

by

Mac H. Brown

BECOMING ONE:

THE PEACE OF CHILDHOOD

More than the absence of conflict,

harmony between one's self and one's world.

A trajectory,

the path of one's life.

Freedom to become,

the full expression of one's genetic and cultural heritage,

Natural moments,

common to one and all but fleeting.

Total absorption,

seeking one's private and communal self.

Self awareness,

finding one's self in a task.

The wonder,

synchronisity of one time and place.

Sacred moments,

becoming what one was intended to be.

Playing.