Strange Cat-Person Item No. Three: Stinkbug Phil

I’m seriously worried about where this strange-cat-person thing might lead. Kim gave me Dena Harris’s book WHO MOVED MY MOUSE? for the holidays. I tried to read it only in broad daylight (while Bugs was spending the 23.75 hours of the day asleep). I had a hunch that if he were to catch sight of it, I’d never hear the end of it. I could just imagine how’d he take to — not — the perfectly sensible and caring advice that Dena generously extends to those of us, humans and cats, who are sorely afflicted with modern-day angst and damaged self-esteem. And who amongst us can honestly say we’re not.

But Bugs got his paws on it anyway. Now I hear him guffawing in the other room. I fear it’s too late. He’s turned into one of those armored-type guys who mocks anybody who needs caring self-help and who’s honest enough to admit it.

I dropped in on Dena’s blog. Now I’m even more worried. Dena writes of sentimental feelings arising out of an incident involving a stinkbug, her fishtank, and a friend who names anything and everything “Phil.”

I’m calling the CDC. This thing is contagious.

http://www.denaharris.com/blog/2010/12/23/stink-bug-as-pet.html#comments

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Anita loves cats. This must be because she, too, has had nine lives. She’s been dancing since she could walk, she was a commercial artist and advertising producer, she earned a third-degree black belt in Aikido, she is a drummer with the Afrique Aya Dance Company, she is a research attorney, and she’s a meditator and a devoted student of Nonviolent Communication. She also spent one lifetime sidelined with a devastating back injury in 1992. Since then – FELDENKRAIS METHOD® to the rescue. The FELDENKRAIS METHOD is all about dreaming concretely – thinking intelligently and independently by way of a gracious and kind physicality. The work affords all who study it a process by which to reach, with movement, into the mind and the heart, to make nine lives into one whole being.

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3 Responses to Strange Cat-Person Item No. Three: Stinkbug Phil

Dena Harris says:

January 20, 2011 at 10:58 am

A lot of people worry about me…

nadbugs says:

January 20, 2011 at 11:57 am

Just as long as Stinkbug Phil comes home again. I’m holding out for that.

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