Synkroniciti is pleased to welcome back Houstonian writer and photographer Ranger with an untitled photo exploring the possibility of family. It’s a simple image of a baby sitting in someone’s lap, taken with a focus on the arms, tiny white-skinned hand resting on the back of the larger brown-skinned hand. The child mirrors the adult’s pose, suggesting relationship and a desire to grow into adulthood like this person. It reminds us that families of today are not one skin tone, but a mix of beautiful shades and colors. In this global culture, more than at any time in history, we have the opportunity to meet people who don’t look like we do and forge loving bonds with them. We can intermarry, we can adopt or foster, we can be part of a community, a village, that cares for one another. It is an exciting time to be alive.
View Ranger’s thoughtful photo in Synkroniciti’s “Family” issue, available here: https://synkroniciti.com/the-magazine/purchase-individual-issues/.
Naturalist, librarian, and general goofball Ranger spends most of her photography moments capturing prairie plants and their accompanying insect pals. Her photos are mostly out of focus. She dreams in British murder mysteries and pouts when she loses at boardgames. She is bad at more things than she excels at, but everyone agrees that her banana bread is excellent. Ranger’s favorite food is candy. She likes walking her dogs and running and is probably doing one of those things right now.