time out of joint

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Me-usings and Me-emories

16 September 2013 - "Where did the time go?" is often heard around my house, along with "time simply flies"...both said with a strain of perplexity.  These are the same peeps that hang time pieces on their walls and on their wrists, that respond like minions to its clarion..."time to rise and shine!", "time is up", "time to leave".  Clearly they have been sucked into the time vortex, where even standing still is blurred and dizzied by the spin of the outside world.  I, on the other hand, am above time, oblivious to its semaphore hands and tempo-setting tick-tock.

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Today's Catechism 

(for the self-taught)

"Time is on my side" is a side-splitter.

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book of the day - Is That a Fish in Your Ear?, by David Bellos, further evidence of peep confusion

laugh track

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Me-usings and Me-emories

16 September 2013 - Ah, the things I've seen.  If only I were more chatty, I could fill your ear.  Yesterday I watched a silly seep dash around the porch, trying to find a point of egress.  Evidently, in its panic, it didn't realize that it could leave through the same hole it entered.  Regardless the lack of thinking, it proved entertaining, rather like one of those popular but inane sitcoms.  To change the channel my female peep had to herd it off the porch with a broom.  My assistance was not needed.

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Today's Catechism 

(for the self-taught)

The view from the top is both amusing and antiseptic.

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Bastet beckons

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quote of the day - "I hate meeces to pieces" ~ Mr. Jinks

like I was saying

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Me-usings and Me-emories

15 September 2013 - Similes enrich our vocabulary.  How else might one convey sure-footedness than to say "like a mountain goat"?  My species naturally have a starring role in this figure of speech:  "as nimble as a cat" or "as nervous as a cat" or "as graceful as a cat" or "as playful as a kitten" or "as weak as a kitten" or "as cute as a kitten".  You get the point, which is the point of similes:  to create an unusual, interesting, or emotional effect.  While you're studying this lesson, I am going to focus on getting myself down from this height.

methodology of the meow-stro

 

 

 

 Today's Catechism 

(for the self-taught)

To fight like cats and dogs

is to behave like animals.

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word of the day -catillac, an outstanding example of a feline

eeny meeny

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Me-usings and Me-emories

14 September 2013 - To keep life fresh and interesting, I occasionally must change things up.  Some days I feel like hanging out in the office, other days I'm content in the bedroom, but lately I have been auditioning the chair in the dining room.  It is difficult to capture in words what exactly a new spot needs in order for me to adopt it as THE spot.  From the expression on my peeps' faces, they haven't figured out the allure factor either.

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Today's Catechism 

(for the self-taught)

Change is a given,

and typically is pennies.

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Catty Corner

place of the day - Cat Island, Bahamas, one of the central islands, and contains the nation's highest peak (at 206 feet) atop of which is a monastery

witchy way did he go?

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Me-usings and Me-emories

13 September 2013 -  No, I am not green with envy.  We cats, in order to see better in dim light, have a reflective layer behind the retina that bounces the light back into the eye...and here actually out of the eye as the color green.  This handy adaptation is called the tapetum lucidum, and it probably has contributed to that ridiculous notion that we are manifest evil.  Just gaze into my sweet face:  Do I look like bad luck to you?

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Today's Catechism 

(for the self-taught)

Think of first impressions

as a rough draft.

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place of the day - Catskill Mountains, in southeastern New York state, made famous by the Hudson River School painters and by Washington Irving

a thousand words

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Me-usings and Me-emories

12 September 2013 - How often does a photograph really do justice to the thing being depicted?  Magnificent sky vistas are totally lost when rendered as an 8x10.  I'm told that this picture is of the Garonne River with Bordeaux in the background, but I am not very good at recognizing the 2-dimensional representation of a living and breathing object...it just doesn't smell right.  BTW, I'm not lazy:  I'm just shot that way.

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 Today's Catechism 

(for the self-taught)

One cannot always smile

for the camera.

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word of the day - catamaran, Tamil for "logs tied together"

paper or plastic?

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Me-usings and Me-emories

11 September 2013 - Why is the world so fascinated by cats sticking their heads in bags and boxes?  The allure evidently felt by both participant ("what ails you, Maru?") and audience totally escapes me.  I tried keeping an open mind, but this behavior is not my idea of having fun.  Perhaps the predilection is linked to the catnip gene, which I don't have either.  To each, his own.

methodology of the meow-stro

 

 

 

 Today's Catechism 

(for the self-taught)

Don't sit in judgement

when you can wallow.

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Bastet beckons

Catty Corner

place of the day - Catalina, a rocky island off the coast of California, made popular in the 1920s by chewing-gum money