“Oh, it’s such a kick to photograph children’s auras,” Waterfall said gleefully as she tore the membrane off the Polaroid prints. “The energy of children is so BIG! See? You can’t even see their bodies or faces!” Sure enough, both photographs of the kids were nearly all yellow, both with an orange outline, and no human likeness, even faintly visible, anywhere on the print.

At first, the boys didn’t seem to know what to make of this.

Waterfall analyzed my youngest son’s aura portrait first–since it was the simplest, and a base for the rest of us. She explained to us that his “energy” was huge, “out there,” playful, friendly, happy, full of curiousity and probing intellect. The orange in the aura is said to be attractive to others, joyful and altruistic.

The youngest Chattering seemed pleased with that assessment.