Well, the other day the source of it all was brought home for me (so to speak).
A bunch of months ago we bought some wood frames at Michael's, the craft store next to Trader Joe's--it was pre-Nora, for sure, because one of the frames is a collage with six spaces, clearly meant to display pictures of six cats--the kind you're meant to decorate yourself. I had painted one shortly after purchase, but the other two languished in the plastic bag we toted them home in, often treated roughly by the cats who enjoyed anything from sitting on them to scratching at the contents.
So over the new year's weekend, I picked them up one afternoon when we didn't have anything else planned, and suggested we paint one each. So we spent a few hours with little paint brushes in hand, glass of water turning ever darker gray, politely sharing the little tubs of water-based paint that children use, decorating the frames. I restrained myself from irritatedly telling him multiple times that he was leaving blobs of paint on the frame, he was wasting paint that way, and they would run before they dried and so probably would be altered from what he intended to paint...aka "he was doing it wrong." (Just another example of potential friction.)
When we were both done to our satisfaction, we prepared and ate dinner, and afterwards the frames had dried enough to put the glass back in and prop them up. I placed them side by side, and suddenly in front of me was clear proof our brains are COMPLETELY different. I knew beforehand that there were some basic differences between us, but it didn't ever sink in the way it did then. I felt like the heavens had opened up and sunlight had poured into an area that had previously been darkly shadowed. See for yourself. I bet you won't have any trouble picking out which one is mine, and which is his. 'Nuff said.
2 comments:
That is so great! What a wonderfully clear illustration of the different mindsets of 2 people. But I have to say, both frames look great and I think they complement each other, since they have a lot of the same colors in common. As they say on What Not To Wear: "They don't match, but they GO."
One more thing: I'm detecting one person leaning towards the right brain and one person leaning towards the left. So it's not necessarily a story of two different brains, but the two sides of one brain.
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