on 1st cars and Jean Chretien

Some of us have a facial anomoly that only appears in photos caught at the right moment.

With me, there are some pictures where I look like I have a lazy eye,

Ever since I was fairly small

Even though in reality I don't

This used to be our prime minister, Jean Chretien.

Just for background history

He had a stroke that affected half his face.

Why am I telling you this?

This is my son when he was maybe 10 or so

It's the first time we noticed it,

but it has come up again in various images

His "Jean Chretien Grin"

Even one of his grad pictures shows it

I have posted pictures of him on here before,

and normally his face is balanced the way it should be

This post was originally supposed to be about a difficult teenager

and how in even this sullen, usually miserable kid

Sometimes that joyous, face-lighting smile that we know is in there somewhere

comes out like a flash of sun from behind the thunderclouds

There, and gone again.

He finally got his first car...

A 2002 Dodge Neon

Nice-looking car.

Well, when he came driving home

The light was shining in his face

He left again right away

Practicing learning how to drive a standard

(Oh the memories of that!!!

I still remember stopped at a stop sign on a steep hill

with a car behind me...I bet there's still rubber on that road!)

So I grabbed my camera and hoped for an instant replay.

I thought I got it.

But when I opened up the picture on my computer

There was Jean Chretien looking back at me, through Trevor's eyes.