Add a dimension or two to a wave pattern et voilą you got your spiral.
What is it, one or two dimensions you gotta add? You mathematicians?
Just going up and down, that's just a slightly more interesting version of stasis. But a spiral - you can be going through these cycles and developing at the same time, yeah.
It's encouraging.
Yesterday I caught myself saying, Children elsewhere in the world are so hungry they are eating grass and you're crying because we're out of chocolate pillow cereal!
It's one of the more interesting things I've said lately. A combination of sleeplessness and Gamma tend to provoke that. (It's not as good as, brush your teeth or else fish will lay eggs in your mouth and you won't be able to speak, but to be honest I wouldn't want to be that tired again, either.)
It also put her Nutella-toast into a more delicious perspective for her. She stopped crying and ate it up.
She's in a drama queen phase. Today she was upset because it was only Friday and not Saturday yet.
Also I had a dream last night, the first one I've remembered in a long time. Christina Aguilera was in it. In fact, come to think of it, it was maybe the first celebrity dream I can ever remember having. Christina was in it, as was Britney Spears and several other pop starlets and they were all naked in a hotel room and fixing to have an orgy. Christina had already started, with a mailman.
Last night I was talking to a guy about voice in writing and making contact with people. I so love the subconscious and it's versions of stuff.
"Yesterday I caught myself saying..."
I caught myself saying: "No, I don't mind if you don't eat your dinner. You can have it for breakfast tomorrow morning. And if you don't like it then, maybe it will taste good when I give it back to you for dinner tomorrow night. If not then, well maybe the next breakfast. Eventually, if I don't give you anything else, this will probably taste really good. As for me, I'm going to finish my dinner and maybe have a little ice cream for desert..."
We have ways to make you eat.
Or I'm a monkey trainer. Lately this one has worked: She was eating peanuts. I took the bag away. If you do a problem in your homework, I'll give you a peanut. Suddenly she's the queen of homework. What took an hour before the Legume Era now takes ten minutes.
Posted by: eeksypeeksy at January 14, 2005 09:54 AMmy friend remarked once remarked to her 2 year old sobber: what will you do when the russians come back if you're already crying like this over nothing?
and i laughed, and she said her mother used to say "nazis" instead of russians.
so yeah, the circle gets wider, but the shape of the spiral remains mostly the same. our mothers' words in our mouths. but surely our intentions are different? surely the application of some degree of irony makes it less like nagging and more like a punchline?
and about your dream: with the mailman? kids these days!
Posted by: anne at January 14, 2005 11:37 AM