getting a life

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Me-usings and Me-emories

24 September 2013 -  The world is a fascinating place, especially so this time of year.  Seasonal change brings flocks of migrating beeps to our yard, many of which peer into the windows.  "No, I don't want to come outside and play."  I am content to sit and watch and imagine.  How far have they travelled?  Where will they be tomorrow?  I know the answers when the questions are posed to me:  my world is circumscribed and vast, bounded by property lines and limitless.  I am content gazing out upon the landscape, waiting for the sumac to redden.

methodology of the meow-stro

 

 

 

 Today's Catechism 

(for the self-taught)

Being ready is different

from being alert.

Bring back Bastet

Bastet beckons

Catty Corner

book of the day - The Whispering Muse, Icelandic author Sjon revisits the retrieval of the Golden Fleece

a car and two goats

Me-ow-my-oh!

Me-usings and Me-emories

23 September 2013 - I am easily entertained and quickly bored.  This particular spot often yields a few minutes of amusement:  things dart in and out through the gap, daring me to pounce...so I play along.  The game keeps my reflexes sharp and my eyesight keen.  Those times when I have dragged the squirmy thing out, it immediately went lifeless...which is absolutely a snoozer.  What is back there?  At least it's not a 3-door problem.

methodology of the meow-stro

 

 

 

 Today's Catechism 

(for the self-taught)

Everyone should have a favorite toy.

Bring back Bastet

Bastet beckons

Catty Corner

character of the day - Miss Kitty, (AKA Amanda Blake) Gunsmoke saloon-keeper for nineteen years

out and about

Me-ow-my-oh!

Me-usings and Me-emories

22 September 2013 - What is normal everyday for one person is exotic to another.  The perspective is determined not by the place but by the perceiver.  Where does the beheld fall on the spectrum from familiar to alien?  Had I not travelled widely in the northern temperate zone, I might still hold that palm trees and dracaenas are ho-hum flora.  But even had I not ventured beyond central Florida, I could have inferred diversity.  Just look at the variety found among us:  from snow white to ebony, stripes to solids, calicoes to brindles, we are an eclectic, and if I may say so, fascinating breed.  I have never encountered a purple cat, but I don't disallow the possibility (and I'd rather see than be one).

methodology of the meow-stro

 

 

 

Today's Catechism 

(for the self-taught)

To be widely read and broadly travelled are worthwhile goals.

Bring back Bastet

Bastet beckons

Catty Corner

place of the day - Kitty Hawk, a town on North Carolina's Outer Banks, chosen by the Wright brothers for its wind and sand

oysters on the half-shell

Me-ow-my-oh!

Me-usings and Me-emories

21 September 2013 -  Being a tuxedo cat in a gray world suits me well, don't you think?  There is nothing monotonous about this color scheme, and anyone who thinks otherwise has little imagination.  The eye when given a restricted palette can better perceive nuance.  Busy splashes of bold colors are exciting (don't take this sentiment as a request for a red bowtie), but over-stimulate the rods and cones.  How better to soothe body and mind than with cool-to-the-touch silver and understated onyx.  It's what I'll be wearing this season.

methodology of the meow-stro

 

 

 

 Today's Catechism 

(for the self-taught)

Pearls of wisdom make a lovely statement around the neck.

Bring back Bastet

Bastet beckons

 

Catty Corner

word of the day - chatoyancy, or cat's eye effect, is an optical reflectance seen in certain gemstones, arising either from the fibrous structure or from fibrous inclusions or cavities within the stone

if you can't take the heat

Me-ow-my-oh

Me-usings and Me-emories

 

20 September 2013 - Is it just me, or can you sense a change in the air?  I am completely over summer, and the accompanying fleas and shed hair.  Although winter's chill is not the high point of my year, I do love autumn and would gladly request six months of it...Bastet, are you listening?  Give me crisp, sharp-edged air any day.  Smells are borne on humidity's droplets, but I bet my nose can still discern sour milk at fifty paces in a less saturated atmosphere.  Okay, Mother Nature, the glove has been thrown down...your move.

methodology of the meow-stro

 

 

 

 Today's Catechism 

(for the self-taught)

A cold shoulder would feel

good about now.

Bring back Bastet

Bastet beckons

Catty Corner

person of the day - Katagiri Katsumoto, 16th-century Japanese warlord of an ancient samurai clan, immortalized in a very popular modern Kabuki play

continuing ed

Me-ow-my-oh!

Me-usings and Me-emories

19 September 2013 - We are an inquisitive breed.  I have become adept at opening cabinet doors, because one should know what lies on the other side.  How else does one learn, if not by sticking one's head into things and behind things and under things?  Being told an answer is not nearly so memorable as discovering the answer, for often in the discovery comes an adventure.  You are no doubt familiar with the proverb, "curiosity killed the cat," that forewarns all nosy bodies.  However, there is a less heard rejoinder to that statement:  "but satisfaction brought it back."  I'm banking on reincarnation.

methodology of the meow-stro

 

 

 

Today's Catechism 

(for the self-taught)

"Why?" isn't just for kids.

Bring back Bastet

Bastet beckons

Catty Corner

quote of the day - "A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way." ~ Mark Twain

heart throbs

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Me-usings and Me-emories

18 September 2013 -  How we cats manage to purr is, amazingly, still an open question.  The ambiguity is largely due to the fact that we don't have a unique anatomical feature that is clearly responsible for the sound.  The current thinking is that we alternately dilate and constrict the glottis, causing air vibrations during inhalation and exhalation at an astonishing rate of 20 to 30 per second.  Fortunately for us, we don't need to know how (or why) since it is hard-wired in from birth.  I am particularly fond of the effect achieved in the shower.

methodology of the meow-stro

 

 

 

Today's Catechism 

(for the self-taught)

Finding one's voice implies that

it was first taken away.

Bring back Bastet

Bastet beckons

Catty Corner

opera of the day - Toscat, an early Puccini draft about an alley cat that nightly vocalizes atop the parapets