ice water and ocicats

babies grow in bursts, getting fat & hoarding resources, then suddely shooting up in length (later, height). i've started to think of my calm, plodding, routine-focused intervals as interludes between growth-focused bursts, and sometimes that helps.
i mean, slumps happen, but unconstrained growth gets you leggy brambles that don't bear much fruit for the area they make impenetrable.
and this extended metaphor is Done so i'll stop now.