all my little squirreltjes

For as long as I can remember, I've had a bunch of little squirrels in my head. They eat and sleep and run and yell and play...sometimes vying for my attention all at the same time.

Some of the squirrels work in teams: I get an idea, give it to a team, they work on it in the background; and a day later, I've got an action plan all lined up in the production queue.

Some of the squirrels sit in committees - working together to discuss decisions we have to make: from "what should we eat tonight?" to "is it time to relocate our lives to a new country?"

For a long time, I was trapped, working behind the counter at my "Squirrel Balie", processing requests from my squirrels - day in, day out.

And then there came a time for the balie to close, and for my squirrels and I to figure out a new way to co-exist. We/re still working out...but we're well on our way!

scenes from inside my head