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Molly's Journal, Entry #2


"Ssssssspsssssssh wake up" Morning puppy breath envelopes me.
"Mollllllly go back to sleep."
"I can't. I'm restless."
"It's like 5am, we didn't go to bed until like 2am because YOU wanted to watch Star Wars."
"NOoooooooo we didn't go to bed until 2am because you were frenching COI all night"
"That's not true! And where did you learn that?? Who taught you that?"
"Hanker"
"Who the hell is Hanker?"
"The bull mastiff puppy at daycare"
"He's cute"
"He IS cute."
"Ok, go back to bed. And why are you talking in that ridiculous accent?"
"I'm practicing my Freud analysis voice for the puppy puppet show"
"I thought you were doing Oklahoma?"
"We are but there's too many puppies so we added a Freud and a mailman. We already have a truck"
"I see. Go back to bed"
"I'd rather sit on your head and bite your hair for a bit"
"BACK TO BED"
"ERRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGRRRRRROOOOOOOOWWWWWWLLLLLLLL....I'm gonna go read then"
"Fine. Wake me up in a half hour"

Pitter patter of Molly feet, crunch crunch crunching and the inevitable sound of pee on laminate. Whine whine whine cry cry cry elbow nibbling.

"What??" I say
"I'm reading Beck's Integral Spiral Dynamics and I think this could really help you at work, and perhaps in your relationship with COI." Molly says
"Where did you find that?"
"In your postmodernist critical theory, which I may point out is a bit of a conflicting term in my mind. I don't know if it's an oxymoron or a hyperbole. I haven't figured it out yet. So anyway...Spiral Dynamics Integral, or SDi for short, concerns itself with the deep complexity codes that shape our many worlds. The model describes and makes sense of the enormous complexity of human existence, and then shows how to craft elegant, systemic problem-solutions that meet people and address situations where they are."
"Molly, you need to take this energy, intellectual or otherwise, place it somewhere in your heart, close to the little murmur, and hold it in and safe until I take you to Daycare. Because I cannot discuss this now. And frankly, GOB will be around this weekend and she'll discuss this with you...but I am not doing it now."
"I love you, and you're ignoring me. You learned this from COI"
"Did I learn that when my tongue was supposedly down his throat during the lightsaber battle?"
"You're mocking me"
"I am. Come bite my hair and snuggle"

Puppy jump snuggle. Ahhhhhhhhh...