Monthly Archives: December 2010

Wicked Optimism, Comprehensive Gloom, Paulian Agape

Posted on December 31, 2010 by

So – the legal project’s (still) not done – something about money and will I get paid and come on! it’s the end of the year! – Enough.  Hello.  So glad to be seeing you again. We were just about … Continue reading →

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Don’t Touch That Dial

Posted on December 19, 2010 by

We leave Anita in despair and Bugs who knows where.  What a time for a commercial break! But this just in: In the normal course around here, my human spends hours staring at this lighted rectangle and pecking at these … Continue reading →

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Internal Rejecting Object (IRO) No. One: Trust is For Saps

Posted on December 17, 2010 by

It is Saturday, November 6, 2010.  1:30 in the afternoon.  The sun is shining.  Nice fall day.  (It lies.) I’ve opened the door.  I’m bundling in the shopping.  I’m moving fast, so Bugs won’t get out.  Halfway in-and-out, I look … Continue reading →

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Bugs’s Excellent Adventure: Intro

Posted on December 16, 2010 by

Plot Map:  It is November 6th.  The door is left open; Bugs strolls out.  He freaks, bolts under the house.  Teresa is called.  Four hours later, she persuades him out by dint of patience, plus a plate of odoriferous fresh … Continue reading →

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Why Love For Other Species Ought To Save the World

Posted on December 13, 2010 by

So we now have a five-part test, against which to measure love.  Welcome to better living through legal reasoning. But let’s stop to consider some possible implications.  What if we’ve just invented the first test to prove, to a measurable … Continue reading →

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Bugs the Prenatal Caregiver MidBeing

Posted on December 12, 2010 by

I started this by wondering, are there such things as midhusbands? Research reveals that Bugs would be called a midwife no matter what his gender, according to medicine.net. That can’t be right.  I say let’s us just jettison the gender-, … Continue reading →

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Teresa of Tellington; Bugs (Un)Touchable

Posted on December 7, 2010 by

Bugs was his usual squirrely self, on the first day Teresa came to the house.  He did that walking-away thing all over the place.  We dutifully trailed along behind.  Eventually he let us catch up.  And when Teresa finally did … Continue reading →

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Not-Knowingness; Love; Conversing With Bugs

Posted on December 6, 2010 by

So let’s go back to where we left off, before that last Magical-Mystery-Tour post. Bugs had let go of the claw-launch wake-up game, apparently agreeing to find other ways to amuse himself. But, still, if I got any closer to … Continue reading →

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Knowing What We Don’t Know

Posted on December 4, 2010 by

I do want to fill you in on a few specifics of how Mother Teresa of TTouch works with Bugs and me.  First, though, I want to explore – with you, I hope – that there’s so much we don’t … Continue reading →

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Certainty is Not Biologically Justifiable. I’m Sure About That.

Posted on December 3, 2010 by

Pattie’s comment to my last post springs from our musings about Mystery on the one hand and, on the other, the up- and down-sides of Certainty. For an advance hint of which side I favor, let me describe a cartoon … Continue reading →

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