the masks of love

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i come in from a walk
with you
and they ask me
if it is raining.

i didn't notice
but i'll have to give them
the right answer
or they'll think i'm crazy.

alden nowlan

meet bunny!

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this is my old bunny, bunny. it's been a long time since i've had him, but i only just received this picture (that's not me, by the way).

my friend found him wandering around on someone's lawn, knocked on all the doors on the block and couldn't find his home. no one would take him, so voila: c'est bunny!

he was such a sweetie and he would get really excited when i came home from school. and he would just stretch out on the couch and fall asleep when you were petting him.

anyway, i came home one day and he got really sick (some kind of neurological, bacterial thing); he looked like he was reading the newspaper because his head kept lolling back and forth and his eyes were scanning constantly.

so, before you get a bunny, i have a few words of advice:

they chew everything.

they only calm down when they get older and they live a lot longer than you think.

they are more work than a cat; think more along the lines of: dog that will chew through all of your electrical cords.

you might need to clean their cage twice a day if you aren't planning on litter training them.

they don't just eat kibble; you need to give them fresh greens and even if they like carrots one day, does not ensure that they will the next. they also need hay for digestion (but alfalfa hay is bad for their kidneys - use timothy hay), a stone to grind their teeth, a salt lick and lots of water.

they're noisy at night.

they're noisy during the day.

they don't like loud music or television.

i could go on...

but i have been preachy enough as it is. i just know how easy it seems and it isn't. so think before you get yourself a little critter and if you can handle it, they are absolutely adorable.

quick-quotes quill: our perceptual universe

each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.
william james

what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what sort of person you are.
c.s. lewis


men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.
epictetus

space is all one space and thought is all one thought, but my mind divides its spaces into spaces into spaces and thoughts into thoughts into thoughts. like a large condominium. occasionally i think about the one space and the one thought, but usually i don't. usually i think about my condominium.
andy warhol

if we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.
ludwig wittgenstein

the moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
henry miller

it suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the earth. i put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet earth. i didn't feel like a giant. i felt very, very small.
neil armstrong

my best presents

oh yeah, that's me: being materialistic. wait! what's this? a post!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS, MFS! sorry: that one was for jody - I'm not sure if she remembers that christmas memory.

she knitted me the most beautiful scarf, and that was really my favourite gift, only they just don't make stock photos of those.

i hope everyone is having a lovely night, whether they are celebrating christmas or not.