"Dexter Nibble was a talented mouse. When he was tiny, pink and nearly hairless he would lie in his crib and sing silly baby songs and tap his fingers and toes. Later he would turn any room he was in into a music studio. The kitchen - the bathroom - the echoing hallway. Everywhere that Dexter went - Music went too!"
That's how my written version of The Sunflower Seed Six begins. The Sunflower Seed Six started as a story of some jazz playing mice and their adventures as they play music at a cats birthday party. For some reason he couldn't get enough of of these guys. This gang of mice caught his imagination and wouldn't let go. Earlier cribsheets have covered some of this territory but the phenomena has grown and developed in many strange ways. The Sunflower Seed Six quickly became adventure heros rescuing the puppies from 101 Dalmations and going on to endless (I'm not kidding) weird, fascinating stories. I often start to write about these things just after they have peaked mostly as a note to myself so I will remember but this phase, while calming down, isn't over at all. It has morphed into a dramatic alternate identity that co-exists with his life as Isaac. For months now, maybe a year, if you call him "Isaac" there is a chance that her will reply: "My name is dexter Nibble".
I was taking pictures of him out at Discovery park and he was making those awful faces that kids sometimes make. He looked most like Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes when being a monster. I said "Hey, what does Dexter Nibble look like?" and his expression transformed into this gentle smile.
