oops a lazy

Shamus on view

Me-usings and Me-emories

15 April 2021 - Whenever you must do heavy-lifting, remember to keep your core muscles engaged and to widen your stance.  I would never hear the end of how I strained a back muscle while eating my kibble... and I'm too young to know infirmity.  However we cats are aware of our mortality, even though there is Bastet's promise of multiple lives, so I practice everything I do with good sense and body awareness.  And with muscles slightly engaged, I can sprint from the scene if that pesky beep crashes through the window.  It isn't that the interloper's breach would be frightening (I am after all twenty times heavier, with excellent reflexes), but I wouldn't want my peeps to connect me with broken glass.

clipped notes

                             Today's Catechism 

                            (for the autodidcat)

One can only suck

in the gut for so long.

Bring back Bastet

Bastet beckons

Catty Corner

word of the day - purrudent, acting with thought of the future (no sense cutting a life short)

skin deep

Shamus on view

Me-usings and Me-emories

14 April 2021 - Early morning light doesn't provide much warmth, but it does promise the outcome I desire... and for that I am grateful, although the softness it gives to everything so touched makes a pleasant view.  The definition of beauty is very personal, varying from peep to peep, but even more so across species... if the concept is even given thought.  A cat's outlook is mostly practical:  does it appear threatening, does it offer food, might it result in head pats?  But certainly I can experience an emotion best translated into "this is very pleasing", and wish that feeling to continue.  Graciously felines don't judge a candidate by his stubbed tail or bald patches or six toes.

clipped notes

                             Today's Catechism 

                            (for the autodidcat)

Kindness comes in all

shapes and sizes.

Bring back Bastet

Bastet beckons

Catty Corner

word of the day - dispurrity, the many differences between cats and peeps

whippy boy

Shamus on view

Me-usings and Me-emories

13 April 2021 - Feeling a tad sluggish?  I recommend a big yawn to stretch the facial muscles and a deep spinal flex.  Lift the chin and sternum while shaping your back into a C... I find the pose very energizing, and the all-body stretch well prepares me for a headlong sprint around our domicile.  Sometimes, when the shorter peep arches her back, soft popping noises can be heard, but judging from her facial expressions the movement isn't painful, just audible.  My body is quite quiet when flexed, so I don't know if the difference is due to my being a newer model or to my being another species... not enough data to make a conclusion (but a history of wear-and-tear would be my guess).

clipped notes

                             Today's Catechism 

                            (for the autodidcat)

Use it or fuse it.

Bring back Bastet

Bastet beckons

Catty Corner

word of the day - limpurr, supple and lithe (even when lying down)

original spin

Shamus on view

Me-usings and Me-emories

12 April 2021 - Waiting gnaws at one's patience reserves, yet perfect coordination that yields no idle time is the stuff of fiction.  So one might as well accept its inevitability, perhaps even put it to use.  I occupy extra minutes by bathing, which admittedly might not work for peeps, although more general grooming activities could be indulged if one is not on public display.  My peeps can often be found lost in a book.  It wouldn't be my choice of pastimes, but books typically are small enough to be carried about... because chronological halts often occur outside the home, far away from one's favorite nap spot... and tend not to draw onlooker frowns (at least not the examples that my peeps read).  Exercise your singing voice, compose a limerick, work on your telekinetic powers... you get the picture.

clipped notes

                             Today's Catechism 

                            (for the autodidcat)

The point is not to

limit one's imagination.

Bring back Bastet

Bastet beckons

Catty Corner

word of the day - purrductive, exceeding yesterday's quota of contented sounds

U4E aaah

Shamus on view

Me-usings and Me-emories

11 April 2021 - If you need a picture of feline joy, this photograph to the right captures a small part of my bliss.  I offer the image to anyone who is despondent or overwhelmed by what life is currently offering.  Our emotional state is naturally impacted by external circumstances of which we have little control.  But we have the ability to color those chemicals coursing through our bodies, to tweak them toward the positive, through deep breathing and purposed visualizations and planned happiness.  The setting can help in this endeavor, and certainly for me there is no better place to purr than the screened enclosure on a warm day.  Perhaps your eden is currently unavailable, but no one can stop your imagined visit.

clipped notes

                             Today's Catechism 

                            (for the autodidcat)

Good things can happen.

Bring back Bastet

Bastet beckons

Catty Corner

word of the day - purradise, the ideal place for a cat

imperiled me, sheez

Shamus on view

Me-usings and Me-emories

10 April 2021 - I pass through this connecting hallway often... so when did this clutter appear?  As keeper of the grounds naturally I must investigate, and determine its threat level.  My life would be much simpler if I could pass by, giving the blight some measure of safe distance... but then my naps would be troubled with thoughts of irresponsibility.  In an unknown situation the initial approach is always the most dangerous, but nothing exploded... nothing even moved.  Mostly it smelled of peep provenance, and I quickly dismissed the collection of odds and ends as uninteresting:  "of no consequence" is the official designation, pronounced onk in the parlay (add "-ing" for its adjective form, e.g. an onking nuisance).

clipped notes

                             Today's Catechism 

                            (for the autodidcat)

"Because" is often preferable

to tracking down the real reason.

Bring back Bastet

Bastet beckons

Catty Corner

word of the day - purrtected, secured from harm, in safe paws

a conscience effort

Shamus on view

Me-usings and Me-emories

9 April 2021 - I am not sure why today I am particularly struck with the discrepancy in the world.  Perhaps it is my surfeit of comfortable good fortune that weighs guiltily upon me.  We can certainly gloss over inequities, even to the extent of total unawareness, living in our bubble or gated community or wilderness compound.  Circling the wagons when there is a threat, is a common reaction, a way to handle the resultant anxiety.  And into that circle we gather those who will soothe our fears, rather than agitate further.  But that like-minded huddle doesn't resemble the random masses, and thus begins the distortion and misinformation.  Even so, emotionally I prefer my society of one.

clipped notes

                             Today's Catechism 

                            (for the autodidcat)

Agreeing with yourself

isn't a second opinion.

Bring back Bastet

Bastet beckons

Catty Corner

word of the day - supurrfluous, way more meows than are necessary