Blowing & Drifting

Driving Julia home from tumbling class tonight around 6:30, we were listening to a Justin Roberts song in which he sings, "You can try to be all cool and subtle." Julia asked, from the back seat, "What's 'subtle' mean, Daddy?" I fumbled for a definition that came down to "telling someone something in a quiet way." A few minutes later, as I lifted her limp self down from the car, she tilted her head off to one side (her idiosyncratic way of indicating she's tired), and murmured, "I'm so hungry, but I'll just be quiet and subtle."