Telephone

If love could be measured by telephone bills and jellybean stacks, Hulk&Baby would win the relationship Olympics.

Laurel crowns and National anthems. Yes, dear, the Canadian national anthem.

Things we have learned this week:

1) Shortcuts work.

Deconstruction pursues intimacy, even as it shoos it away, scowling from its turrets and towers of reason. The direct expression of need, of care, of simple love and immediacy will take us where we want to go much more quickly.

2) Clever criticism clouds credibility.

Tip: When offering suggestion/coaching/critique, if your words rhyme or are particularly poetic, imagistic or quotable in and of themselves, this means that you are not invested in the art/idea/human to whom you are addressing the speechification. Honest, generative feedback doesn't sting, it loves and makes the listener feel understood and invested in. Maybe bashful, maybe misguided, maybe raw, but seen.

3) Sending Baby mold in the mail maybe not such a good idea.

Mold began life as tree-flowers with the baby branch tip wrapped in damp paper towel in a li'l baggie. Hulk built a mold farm and mailed it to his Baby, but in his mind they are still pretty yellow flowers from the kitchen table. The ones Baby sneaky-picked from the tree across the street the day before she went away.

4) Squirrels are creatures of immense faith and they are harbingers of possibility.

Remember this, more about it later. Ravens not to be trusted quite so much.

-n&c-