If you can stick out your tongue at will, you can perform brain surgery. It’s all just a matter of learning how.
I got to meet him last night, when he was about 18 hours old. An engaged and engaging mind. I got him to play a stick-out-your-tongue mimicry game, the youngest kid I’ve ever done that with. That’s voluntary muscle control plus interactive play, all-the-way human from the first bat of his eyelashes. Just as with older children learning to make hand signals, which we discussed a few weeks ago, if you can stick out your tongue at will, you can perform brain surgery. It’s all just a matter of learning how.
We take up the risks and salutary consequences of giving birth in this week’s Church of Splendor homily:
