the big picture

Shamus on view

 Me-usings and Me-emories

11 August 2020 - For the present my world is fairly circumscribed.  I am aware of vast spaces beyond, but I am still in the process of settling into my own skin.  There are undoubtedly felines who see no risk, recognize no stranger... but I am not that sort, not even in my dreams.  How we react to stimuli is hard-wired, and it takes very little to tense my muscles.  "Relax", you say, but anyone whose heart has been revved into overdrive knows that calming down takes time and practice.  There is the comforting fact that skedaddling has so far served me well:  to survive is to have another day to consider whether or not I overreacted.  But felines don't dwell in the past, which isn't to say that we forget the circumstances (and the perpetrators) that scared us.

clipped note

                             Today's Catechism 

                            (for the autodidcat)

Keep an eye

on the new guy.

Bring back Bastet

Bastet beckons

Catty Corner

word of the day - cattentive, passively observing until action is deemed purrudent