arrival

I watched Arrival in the first few days in hospital. How do you communicate with aliens? Sending sounds, symbols, gestures to each other across a void.

I think of this as the midwife tries to find the baby’s heartbeat with her little wand. Echo and crackle, click and swoosh. Are you in there little one? Crackle. Swoosh. I think of this baby’s sounds mingled with mine stretching across what feels like infinite space. Are you in there?

And then boom. Boom boom boom boom. The sheer force of it. The joy.

They won’t listen every day until 24 weeks. I’m counting down until I can have this little intergalactic chat every day…