I'll light a candle for Griveny Gray Cat tonight. So far, the most wrenching bereavements in my life have been related to cat(s), so please accept an offer of love. May Griveny hang around and give you some advice from that place somewhere between here and heaven.
Griveny Cat still lives and is waiting to pounce. You might be able to see him/her but you will feel/sense her/him continuing in your life. Ronni, who is still getting lessons from Sarah, smaqll grey tortishell, five years not visible.
My musings on current events, current projects, current anxieties and current delights.
I started this under the Bush regime when any grain of sand thrown into the gears of the over-reaching imperial state seemed worthwhile.
I have worked to elect more and better Democrats -- and to hammer the shit out of them once we get them in office so they do the things their constituents want and need. It's a big job.
It's mighty uncomfortable, getting by in a declining empire where elites maintain their power by massaging our mean streaks and mobilizing our resentments. This country and this "civilization" may be on their way out, but there's nothing else to do except try to make them as humane as possible along the way. That and to celebrate the extraordinary love that sometimes accompanies our species' bumbling way.
And the end hasn't come til it comes, ever.
Visitors will find a lot of commentary on books I'm reading here. I am very intentionally reading more offline these days because when it feels hard to find direction, it's time to learn something new.
I'm a progressive political activist who runs trails and climbs mountains whenever any are available. I've had the privilege to work for justice in Central America (Nicaragua and El Salvador), in South Africa, in the fields of California with the United Farmworkers Union, and in the cities and schools of my own country. I'm a Christian of the Episcopalian flavor; we think and argue a lot. For work, I've done a bit of it all: run an old fashioned switch-board; remodeled buildings and poured concrete; edited and published periodicals, reports and books; and organized for electoral campaigns. I am currently an independent consultant to organizations seeking "help when you have to make a fight."
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I'll light a candle for Griveny Gray Cat tonight. So far, the most wrenching bereavements in my life have been related to cat(s), so please accept an offer of love. May Griveny hang around and give you some advice from that place somewhere between here and heaven.
Griveny Cat still lives and is waiting to pounce. You might be able to see him/her but you will feel/sense her/him continuing in your life. Ronni, who is still getting lessons from Sarah, smaqll grey tortishell, five years not visible.
It is awful to lose a cat... a beloved companion. Prayers for you in this awful time. May Griveny Gray Cat rest in peace and rise in glory.
As our vet said, there is a corner of your house that will never be the same. And she was right.
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