Words of Wisdom (p)

For Aaron, on your graduation:

Words of Wisdom from Me:

Practice writing left-handed
at least once a week.
(trust me)
Never pass up an opportunity to
watch a sunset or a sunrise.
When you're feeling down,
get a bottle of bubbles
and blow away your blues.
Always love with your
entire heart,
but never
give it away
without being certain
it's going to a good
home.

lone (p)

alone;
one;
just
me.
I'd thought that when I would live alone,
I would at least
have the
cat.

she loved water that much - a ramble

She hated to have her picture taken and would never look at the camera.
You could get a profile but never, ever a full face shot.
She wouldn't drink still water until near the end.
Water was her favorite toy, if there was a body of water around, she'd find it.
She used to [in much younger days] jump in to the bath or shower with me, she loved water that much.
When we lived on the island in Lake Champlain, she would jump in and out of the rowboat until someone took her out into the bay, at which point she'd jump out and swim back in.
She made friends with the beavers there.
She tamed a pit bull.
She killed a racoon.
She was a mighty huntress and would leave prizes on the doorstep.
She never bothered the chickens or guinea hens, but let a weasel around and she would face it down.
She did kill songbirds and suffered for it once, contracting songbird fever. She left them alone after that.
She wouldn't stay outside if the coyotes were around though.
She was smart.
She didn't miaow very loud, just a tiny noise to let me know she was there, but her growl scared most people until they realised it was her.
She was never 'just a cat', she was Kiki, the mistress of all she surveyed.
She lived in 5 different states and has died in the same one she was born in.
She liked sitting on my lap while I was reading, purring like her engine was stuck.
She never did eat a mouse, however lizards were another matter.
When I was sick [which has been a lot since the Lyme disease] she would lay right next to me until I was better.

I wish I could have done the same for her.

Initialtive (p)

I am not the sum total of what others make me to be;
they see what they want to see.
Let us not mistake this life
for a break
from death,
for that would be
[for you and me]
the end.
Only ever losing,
we walk away
from the choosing
and in choosing the losing
something is lost.
Very likely we will end in this world alone.
Even in each other's arms, death is lonely.
Yes, there is a chance, many in life.
Overlooked often, only outcome one.
Under the rocks, over the treetops; we search throughout this world,
for someone with whom we can share our pain.

TMUtB (d)

Being chased by the monster from under the bed, we hide in the one place it won't look; under the bed. We make friends with the dust bunny and he tells us how to conquer the monster. We leave a glass of milk and a burrito beside the bed and the monster eats and goes away forever!

Nickers (d)

In the maze I follow the twists and turns, guided by the nickering of a horse. A few dead ends later I find myself at the center of the maze and the horse is there.
It's Nickers! I tell her that I thought she was dead. She tells me that she is, outside of the maze, but that she can help me get out of it.
I get on her back and tangle my fingers in her mane, she carries me to the exit and we sadly say goodbye again.

Dreaming in cartoons (d)

is quite entertaining.

I'm in the hundred-acre wood, searching for my point. Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, Piglet, Rabbit and Owl seem to be hiding it from me. Arrow [the dog] is helping me search, but gets side-tracked chasing after Rabbit.

For some reason you appear and tell me my point isn't here, that the search will be fruitless until I'm in the correct scenario. You do talk funny as a cartoon.

Back in Colorado! (d)

We all meet at the bar and play trivia. Our team wins t-shirts and drinks! After trivia we go to Pete's and have huevos rancheros to die for.
A few of us decide to go to Lookout Point to watch the sunrise We sit under a tree, discussing how beautiful this land is and how terrible it is that we've allowed the gr'ups to ruin it for everyone else.