Gray Matter

One morning, Adele notices that her thought bubble is completely empty.

Our brains are busy things. What with all those neurons beavering away, sorting things out at work, home, school and dog park. It’s a lot for one organ to handle. Somehow, it mostly succeeds.

There are, I’m told, many kinds of brain cells, each dedicated to a particular cerebral activity. A complete taxonomy would be tedious to list, let alone read, but many types, such as the groundless fears neuron, the vain hopes neuron, and the why-in-heaven’s-name-did-I-just-say-that neuron, will be familiar to most.

In these eventful, stressful days, a contentless thought bubble might be a good thing, at least momentarily. But in order to be sure, I’d have to think about it and … well, you see the problem.