Pillow talk

I.
I took a walk with my father and sister tonight. He was telling us about a book he was reading about Confucius, a distant relation of mine. Tangentially, he mentioned that Lao-tze, according to legend, spent 80 years in his mother's womb and emerged a white-haired geezer!

II.
Not long afterward, back at home, I talked to S. about Duncan's sleep habits. Lately he's only content to snooze while in a semi-sitting position, within the compass of a boppy pillow. I joked that pretty soon he'd need to sleep in the circular "body pillow"—ehhh, too hard to explain, but basically it's this huge elongated pillow that you can turn into a circular seating thingy. (S. used it during her pregnancy, and we don't know what to do with it now.)

III.
Annnyway, this amusing dialogue made S. flash back to Jonathan Winters' character on Mork & Mindy—he played Mearth, Mork's child, who was much older-looking, since Morkans age backward.

Which made me bring up the Lao-tze anecdote my father had told me...

IV.
I turned on the radio. Odd sounds issued forth: David Garland's Spinning on Air. DG talks to the Chinese musician...who says her composition is based on a saying by...Lao-tze!