Posted on 28. Jan, 2009 by Glark in Blog
I’m going through a tin of photos rescued from our place in Toronto. I swear I’m not making this up when I say half of the photos of me as a child feature me naked. Apparently I wasn’t a big fan of clothes. I know I decided on two occasions, when I was 3 or so, that I needed to run around the neighbourhood naked (so I went ahead I did just that) but I had no idea the nakedness was 23/6. As far as I can tell from the photos my life went like this:
Birth quickly followed by a shirt.

Then I was brought home and quickly stripped of clothing and hosed down in the bathroom.

Then a bunch of shots like these where I’m all “naked is awesome!”

And “Nude is me! Don’t try to change me!”

And “Mom, you’re going to holding that diaper for a long time because this cool dude loves being nude!”

Then I flew an airplane naked.

Then a brief interlude in the backyard in a diaper to test the waters.

Which proved successful and was followed up with baseball and the forementioned runs around the neighbour buck naked.

For good measure a run through the sprinkler.

As far as I can tell from this shot my parents — figuring out that I’m never going to wear clothes — decide to just put paper down on the kitchen table and let me do my business there. Or maybe I fancy myself a dancer. Not sure.

Then it gets weird. What the hell is this shot?

I’m like 28 or 29 and I’m chillin’ in the kitchen with pants shooting the shit with my Mom. “Hey Mom, what’s for dinner? Oh, my pants? Yeah, I wasn’t feeling it. Yes I know I’m going to graduation tonight. I just thought I wear pants all day and what better time to not wear pants or for that matter underwear than in the kitchen at dinnertime?”
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