More virtual cats

Simon's cat is my other virtual cat. This video totally cracked me up.

 

Double Trouble

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Crawling around with Rainer Maria Rilke this weekend - he fits my mood of late... Everything below is his from various writings. Indentation and text color brought to you by the vagaries of cut-and-paste.

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The only question is whether I will manage to keep out all intrusions and stay as quiet and undiscovered as I have been accustomed to being elsewhere.

Your solitude will expand and become a place where you can live in the twilight, where the noise of other people passes, far in the distance.

Therefore, love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you.

What is necessary, after all, is only this: solitude, vast inner solitude. To walk inside of yourself and meet no one for hours -- that is what you must be able to attain.

If there is nothing you can share with other people, try to be close to Things. Things will not abandon you. The nights are still there, and the winds that move through the trees and across many lands. Everything in the world of Things and animals is filled with being, of which you are part.

I beg all those who love me to love my solitude too, for otherwise I would have to conceal myself even from their eyes and hands, like a wild animal hiding from enemies bent on its capture.

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Rock Show

Yesterday the birding was bad, and I found myself at the Rock and Mineral Show at the fairgrounds. I was in trouble by the time I left the first booth - they had jasper and agate slabs. But my best find was about midway down the aisle - Polish flint. I'd never heard of it, never seen it, fell in love with it. It reminds me of tulip poplar wood with more action.

Here are pictures of the slab I bought (about 9x5 inches) - these are dry shots, it doesn't need to be wet to be beautiful. And it's even better in person. Wow!

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Polish Flint Slab

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These I believe...

1. Businesses and insurance companies sending Christmas cards doesn't induce anyone with a brain to buy their products. (Let me know if I'm wrong about this.) Yet another waste of resources.
2. Leaf-blowers and hoses weren't created to deal with leaves (well, maybe they were, but they shouldn't have been); rakes and brooms were.
3. Challenge is highly over-rated.
4. I propose the following for the 2012 election: Republicans support the position that the world is flat; Democrats support the position that the world is a pyramid; independents - you have the cylinder. Whoever wins the election is right, and all textbooks will be rewritten to support the new order.
5. The losses of true darkness and true silence have had a major detrimental impact on our individual and collective psyches.
6. Turning on your turn signal after you've slowed down or changed lanes is too late!
7. We should not be wiping our butts with virgin forest.
8. We should not be flushing our toilets with some of the cleanest drinking water in the world.
9. A politician's job is to govern even if it means he/she won't be re-elected.
10. Hawaii 5-0 is not Hawaii 5-0 without Jack Lord. Period. End of discussion.

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International Day of Peace - September 21, 2011

Frazz, as usual, has the words...

 

 

Frazz 2011-09-21

  

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Peace on earth, goodwill toward its inhabitants - all of them.

  

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Growth

"We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations."  ~ Anaïs Nin

In my opinion, a very Feldenkraisian way of looking at growth.  :)

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Virtual cats

My virtual cat, whom I'm borrowing while catless, is either driving a Winnebago or morphing into a turtle in his most recent video. His name is Maru, and he lives in Japan.

 

Maru's channel

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