“The brain is like a catcher’s mitt waiting for social interaction.”
Jim Coan, Ph.D., University of Virginia stated at the EMU Attachment Conference, Spring 2011
I was at the grocery store today with my son and we bought bananas. He wanted one right away so once we got everything in the car, we pulled out a banana. I was sitting in the driver’s seat peeling it and I noticed the woman in the parking spot facing me waving her banana at me…once she got my attention she raised her banana as if to make a toast. I toasted back. I might have thought this was a rather random, even odd, exchange, but when considered in the context of this quote it seems entirely normal, even delightful. I personally appreciated the exchange.
