I have daughters. Twin daughters. Beautiful twin daughters, age 10.
Both are artistic. One likes to sing and dance. One is a bit more of a graphic artist.
I explained that I was starting a website called the “Sunlight Project” and I needed a logo.
I explained what a logo was.
The graphic artist told me that she would help. She asked me what the Sunlight Project was.
So I did.
First I explained that sunlight is considered a disinfectant. (Then I explained what a “disinfectant” was.)
Then I explained that sunlight can mean both actual rays of the sun and public awareness/attention.
I asked her to think about what happens (grows/lives) in dark, damp areas that never get the sun.
In one of their video games, where they each play a character and build and design a home for their character; if they don’t play the game for a long period of time, when they return to their home and turn on the light, they have to spend a little time chasing a bunch of certain large and unattractive insect out of their home.
She got the concept.
I asked her to think about why people who plan or do bad things don’t want other people to know — and why they sometimes plan or do bad things in secret … in the dark, so to speak.
She got that concept also.
I asked her to think about what happens in a garden (for example) that gets enough sun. How when we plant our sunflowers in the right spot, they grow taller than the first floor of the house.
We talked about how sunlight in proper dose can be very healthy. We talked about how people tend to behave better when the realize that others will see or know how they behave.
The places where there is no sunlight (or “sunlight”) are the places where “interesting” things grow/live — and typically not interesting in a good way. Interesting as in no fun to encounter/experience. … as in divorce for most people.
I explained that the purpose of the Sunlight Project was to get sunlight — public awareness — on issues that will help children and others who are experiencing a divorce. How I want divorce to be more healthy than it is now. That if sunlight was able to “touch” the issues — if the issues weren’t kept in the dark but instead got some public awareness — the world would be a better place for those children and households.
I don’t think she understood all of that.
But she designed the logo. A window with rays of the sun reaching through to “touch” ….
It is wonderful. She is wonderful. So is her sister.
My daughters are wonderful.
I’m proud to be their dad.
I’m glad that I’m a dad with equal parenting time. (We’ll maybe get into what that cost personally and financially at another time, in another set of posts. Maybe not maybe.)
Hope that those of you who visit this site get something positive and of value that makes your life and your children’s lives better.
That is the purpose of the Sunlight Project.
I hope that the quality of my posts matches the quality of the logo.