Roxie Practices Her Balancing Act Atop Jean Claude's Back
Category Archives: animals
Purr-fection
Roxie’s Prissy, Pissy ,Protest
Don’t read this is you have qualms about cats…ah..habits. Tuesday morning, Miss Roxie, the Japanese bobtail, peed on my comforter. Then she peed on my spread. Naturally, I became quite angry and then I was concerned. Another urinary tract infection?? Naw… She was clearly just pissed. The solution …another litter box…there are now two litter boxes in my basement. Roxie is again content. There is peace.
A Drink From A Certain Fountain
There is an old “Twilight Zone” episode, “A Drink From A Certain Fountain” in which a man wishing to impress his younger wife takes a youth enhancing drug to most interesting consequences. Recently I had the opportunity to visit with friends, there was wine but also afterwards it felt like I had been slipped a mental “Mickey.” Dizzy and a bit disoriented I went to CCL’s house where I took a quick nap. Still, today trying to regain my composure. I guess the lesson is to always be careful from whose cup you drink. Encouragement, mental support and love are served up by friends but not always As humans we sometimes serve up confusion, discouragement, complaint and maybe envy. Always forgivenss is the answer – then it is also up to us to whether we want to take what someone suggests or infers about us with a grain of salt.
Cats & Kids
As I write this, the voices of Elizabeth Taylor and Katherine Hepburn yelling in the background in a key scene from “Suddenly Last Summer” from my television along with the chirping of birds outside. Jean Claude is resting on top of an arm chair downstairs watching the world. Roxie is watching the movie.
It’s been a long rough week, work is real work and also just finished up a project with some young people and a close friend. Last night some chaos as some young men who were not part of the team project showed up with swagger, brash and foul mouths. The leaders of the team including one young woman calmed things down. Afterwards I spoke with the young woman, so unsure, feeling the need to apologize because she is a leader, a star. It saddened me and we discussed the incident and her need to apologize when I drove her home. She felt a little better and I hope better about herself and her right to celebrate her achievements.
In another old favorite “All About Eve” in that beautiful script by Jospeh Mankiewich script George Saunders tells Ann Baxter “The Eve” character “We are all equipped with little horns to blow on about our triumphs.” Just ask Roxie
Summer Favorites
Roxie and Jean Claude, while primarily housecats, enjoy the outdoors. Well, Roxie not so much , although she likes sitting on the back porch steps or peering out the open windows to check out what’s going on. She will on ocassion come to supervise my work in the garden or to let “Rocky” the urban squirrel know that he is not to climb the huge pine tree in my backyard.
Cats & All That ™ 