Les Amours Enfantines, acrylic and antique book on paper, 7″x6″, 2004, Stuart Sheldon The 8-year-old daughter of a friend once paid me an enormous compliment. She told me I was the second least boring adult present at dinner. Her mother was least boring and her father, with his steady stream of old jokes, won the dubious honor of most boring. This brutally honest “if-it’s-tedious-I’m-outta-here” attitude makes kids highly credible arbiters of how to communicate in our short-f