Text and email fail!

Dearest Red Bird

As you will see this was going to be an email to you, but I thought about what we had said to each other about our emails being more interesting than our posts sometimes and decided to prove our theory wrong;p



So I sent you a text today to say, Hi, I miss you, and my phone let me down. So an email will have to do:)

Lovely post with Fledgling, she's so intelligent, you can hear how smart she is, her replies are not that of a typical 12 year old. Also, when did she become a 12 year old? Life is flashing past way too fast. I'm trying to get the boy to do something similar, but it may take a while, you know how hard it is for him to access any thoughts or feelings about subjects that he doesn't initiate. Talking of which last nights question of the night was;

 "Do you think humans are interfering with evolution? Basically are our medical advances causing the delay or halt of survival of the fittest if we are curing or finding ways to live with illness rather than it being bred out of us as in the past when those with genetic defects would simply die and there would be no offspring to continue the spread of the genetic disease. Or is the fact that it is usually the rich who can afford these medical interventions and, with the rich being typically more educated, is this in itself a form of natural selection where we will be left with a race of highly intelligent beings? Will it matter that we still have genetic diseases if we are able to control their affect on us? Are we heading towards a time when we will chose who will live at conception, a human helping hand if you will, for evolution? If so is that a bad thing or are we simply doing what nature does?"

All this came from watching the new milk ad's on television with the cave men and the recent vote on motion 312 in the House of Commons. That's how his brain works!

So the flip side of this is that he was able to bring that question to the table but was not able to engage in conversation with us about it. He had obviously been thinking about it and had come to some conclusions, but when asked to express his opinion in front of us he simply couldn't. It's such a strange thing and I will never understand it. If I could flip back the top of his head and peek inside I imagine it would be full of profound topics swirling around, characters similar to the great thinkers of our time would be deep in discussion about wondrous phenomena, yet not one word of it can be heard and their heads are bowed making it impossible to read their lips.

We'll see what the next few days bring, but in the mean time I hope Fledgling will share her insights with us again. Selfishly it makes me feel like the two of you are closer, and I like that.

Always Yours

Sparrow

p.s.  I just want to add that if you were to flip back the top of my head it would reveal a really bad rendition of 'Shake it out' by Florence and the Machine you sent me except I can never remember the words so all you would hear is a lot of out of tune 'na na naa's'. I swear, if he wasn't the spitting image of his Dad I would bet my life on them having given me the wrong baby!