Dear Intimacy,

What would you have me know today?

I thought my lines looked like a snowflake, Miles thought a landscape of trees and a lake, and Margot found the letter Y.

Look at these lines! These lines are part of my palm. Today, Betty asked us to draw, without looking, all the lines of our palm for 5 straight minutes. Something magical happened. I stopped hearing the chit chat around me and couldn’t believe how many little lines are on my palm. I zoned in. I am someone who rushes around a lot of the time, and has a hard time slowing down. So, it felt good to slow right down and take a look at my palm for 5 minutes this morning.

(the rushing part - during the covid lockdown, Margot was 6ish months old. I was rushing around our kitchen trying to blend her something to eat with our blender. I was rushing so much that I dropped the blender base on my toe. Somehow, this time, my toe did not break! I called my mom after to tell her, and her response? “why are you rushing, Megan?! There is no where to go!” I think about this conversation often).

Miles said he did the palm drawing yesturday while we were stuck in traffic enroute to theatre practice. Instead, Miles made a homemade arcade game of tag for him and Margot to play. The characters in his game are him and Margot!

Margot didn’t want to copy her palm either, so she copied a print out of hello kitty.

We made all of these things before school!

Miles and Margot, in arcade video game form (Margot drew her face and Miles drew his).