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Meditate

Heading into my 10pm meditation. Julie is feeling better, Bob is out playing darts, and the house is serene. Appreciating life. Please join me – it’s only ten minutes!

CityScape #3

I’ll make this third cityscape easier – can anybody name what country it’s in? Bonus points if you know the region.

Cityscapes

Here’s another one of my cityscapes – can anybody guess the city?

Juliet the Cat and her UTI

A Julie update.

The vet called the next day to check on her, which was good of them. Bob talked to the vet about the pill-based antibiotic and the vet said the liquid one is both harder to manage (has to be refrigerated etc) and also costs $20 more. At this point Julie is gulping down the pill without much fuss so it’s probably just as well we went the pill route. We don’t even coat them in butter any more.

While she was on the Kitty-morphine she had pretty much zero appetite. She barely ate anything. She barely moved. Just a few hours after the kitty-morphine wore off, she was alert and hungry. So she’s back to eating and drinking at a normal rate, which is great. She doesn’t seem to be in any pain at all.

It’s a huge help to our schedules to have her now just on the twice-a-day antibiotics. I actually slept a full sleep cycle for the first time in nearly a week last night. So I’m no longer a zombie. We’re all happy she’s feeling better .

We will of course keep the antibiotics going until they are fully done, to ensure she stays healed. And we’ll leave her on the Science Diet 11+ going forward, along with her wet food. She mostly prefers the wet food but occasionally takes a nibble on the Science Diet.

Thank you to everyone for the warm wishes along the way! I’m very glad it all seems to have resolved. Let me know if you have any questions. Hopefully my notes can help others who might face this issue in the future.

Boston Cityscape

Here’s one of my cityscapes for the upcoming Milford show – this is an Oct Boston MA sunset taken from a cruise ship. It was a few days before the World Series began.

Go for your dreams!

Go for your dreams!

 

Forgive the World

Day 18 – Forgiveness and The World

Another case where this book becomes wildly vague and expansive in its categories. “The World”? The examples given are politicians and religious groups. The aim is to ponder how we sometimes malign entire groups of people, and why.

I try not to do this. I realize in every group that can traditionally be maligned – politicians, lawyers, used car dealers – that there are people who are honest and good. It’s unfair to harm them, even just through constant teasing, about something they care about. I wouldn’t want someone continually teasing me about being a writer.

I feel a twinge of sadness when I see generally disparaging posts about “all religious people are XXXX” or so on. People have different opinions and that’s OK. If a group acts in a way which infringes on another group’s rights, then legal action can be taken to create the proper boundaries. But being nasty about them personally doesn’t seem to be constructive. They might feel the way they do because they were brainwashed for their entire life by their family and community. That’s hard to undo.

If anything I would feel sympathy that they live in a state of unhappiness and hate. I’d hope that they can find their way out of it. Spending so much energy on fostering hate would, I would think, also fill one’s own body with stress hormones. So it’s not good for others and it’s not good for the source person either.

My aim in these cases would be to look at the person / group’s actions and be able to first say “I disagree with the action”. Then it’s a question of whether I feel their action is harming others or not. If it isn’t, I need to let them hold their own opinion and be at peace with that . If I do feel their action is harming others – for example if I feel they’re infringing on others’ rights – then I should take some action. I would feel, if I just ranted about it and spread stress around, that I’d damage my own health, I’d damage others’ health, and I wouldn’t be doing much good about the issue I cared about.

So those were my ponderings on “The World” .

Meditation

Heading into my 10pm meditation. Today was a blur. With Julie’s frequent pill schedule, I am barely sleeping but barely awake . Tomorrow Juliet finishes with her kitty-morphine and then things should calm down a bit, once it’s just twice-a-day antibiotics on an even schedule. So I’ll meditate on her healing well.

Tracking Down an Artwork

I’m on a quest – does anybody know who did the original which looked sort of like this? Done with a typewriter? It shows two sets of soldiers facing off, going into battle, and then all dying. My memory of it is very vague, and I can’t find it anywhere on the internet. #asciiart

 

Sleeepy

Juliet the cat needs her next antibiotic at 9am. It’s 7am and I’m sleepy. Guess I stay awake somehow for another 2 hours .  #kittylove