Have a very happy holiday season!
Jane and I celebrate Christmas, and while this has been a rough year for Jane, there is brightness too. We have made new friends and we are getting the house in order.
And a Christmas note on the kitty front: as you know, Jane and I have sis-Lynn’s elderly snowshoe Siamese we have been trying to integrate into our household, with the Bengal and the Scottish Fold, aka Mr. Darcy and Mr. Bingley (their online pseudonyms)…Tanner is of a fighting disposition, and it has not been easy. But he longs for company. Interspersed with absolute fear of our two. We have tried Feliway, Feliway calming collars, melatonin chews, and yes, hemp oil. We have moved Tanner up from the lonely basement to reside in a round canvas kennel under the Christmas tree, and let him out during the day while our two are asleep in my room. Come evening, out ours come and he goes back into the kennel.
We HAVE made progress—we have gotten Mr. Bingley to sit calmly, even doze on the cat tree about 8 feet from Tanner sitting on the sofa; and we have gotten Mr. Darcy to tolerate him with baleful stares from across the room. We shall not speak of the moment Mr. Bingley popped up on one side of Jane while Tanner was sleeping on the middle console. But there will be set-backs. The real news is, they are not cuddles, but they are beginning to define spaces and rights-of-way, and nobody has bled. Some fur has flown, but nothing serious. We’ve come a long way since April.
So from the felines of the household, Meowwwrrrrrrrrrrrrrrghhhhhhhissssspityyyyy Christmas!
10
newest »
Hm, apparently, I didn't look closely enough. Original post, posted to wrong thing. Apologies. Let me me see if I can find the general area.
I did try, but first hope your holidays since 2018 have been much better. I miss having a cat, but current living expenses don't really allow for having a pet right now (adopted family member, actually - I refuse to see 4 legged fur babies as 'pets').I find reading the books set in your Union-Alliance addictive to read/listen to (yes, I actually listened to the ones on Graphic Audio) but I do have a question about some tech speak - Well, I can guess Class A & B are Alpha class and Beta, but what are Classes M, P, & V? I tried google, but I couldn't find those. It did tell me AZI stood for Artificial Zygote Insemination and WISE stood for Word In Space Economy. Is there a site with terminology one could look up? Also, I don't think it was ever explicitly said, but since Joshua Talley was from the Union in origin, does that mean he was an AZI?
Thank you for all your hard work and awesome stories. I'm slowly picking my way through the books, but they've all delighted me so far.
Pardon me, but I would very much like to read Invitations. I can't find it anywhere. As much as I despise Amazon, I would even buy a kindle version. Please help?
Also, there are deep existential questions addressed in the Foreigner series: alienation, abandonment, the triumph of empathy, the transcendence possible when dialectical thinking overcomes either/or habits of thinking. Fortunate three indeed!
If one is not looking for those themes, one does not appreciate the depth of the narrative and the profound implications of the story. We need to get this book listed in the philosophy section.