connections

 i enjoy the feeling of connection...

having my own mind be heard and understood and appreciated.

being able to hear other people's minds and getting to understand and appreciate them.

okay, that's only true half the time.. there are exceptions from time to time when I have things i want to get done which need my energy or concentration. --- Which depending on the topic of a conversation,  I can be kind of wiped afterwards and then have to have time to recenter and reboot before i can even attempt to get anything done again.

  Esp when you are caring with someone with a touch of dimensia..  one get's to know the basics of their  brains pretty dam fast,  esp when their limited number of stories start to go on repeat but it's still always the first time for them... ..  kiddo and I still listen in and make a digital memory of it all for prosperity.. because sometimes, on the sweetest of occasions, we get to hear a bit of history we didn't yet know about.  those are treasured moments.  and then also super aggravating when the tech doesn't work and the story gets lost bc the chances of them repeating one of those rarer story gems, are well, not high.. 

   though these days, sometimes it seems like some stories are getting combined in interesting ways... which actually makes it more fascinating for us though.. or when we can get them to tell us their history in their native tongue. then we could listen for hours quite delightfully.  :D