Author Archives: nadbugs

About nadbugs

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.

I Just About Forgot . . .

Posted on May 19, 2013

. . . how you add a new post.  To this blog.  I’ve only been adding new posts to this blog for about three years now. This is how things are, right this moment.

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My Little Stomachs

Posted on April 21, 2013

My knickers are in a twist again. Again it’s about folks who think causally.  I’ve written about this before. Causally.  I do mean causally.  Not casually, although that bothers me too – “casual” thought is an oxymoron.   No, I mean … Continue reading →

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Brotherly Love

Posted on April 15, 2013

Yesterday I attended a memorial for a judge.  This man had a great capacity to inspire love in others, even despite his important position in a world that does not seem to embody this trait. I know this man had … Continue reading →

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Tables Turned

Posted on April 7, 2013

Today – the first time I’ve ever seen it – it was Bugsy going two rounds on Barney. It was after dinner, in the cool gray evening of a quiet Sunday.  Barnes was meditating, inhaling the first lawn-mowing of the … Continue reading →

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Soft Power

Posted on April 5, 2013

I had an incredibly sustaining and supportive dream the other night.  I was being chased by Nazis.  (Yes, I did say sustaining and supportive.)  My cats Bugs and Barney came to my rescue. This was my unconscious shaking its booty, … Continue reading →

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Box Series Continued

Posted on April 2, 2013

My dear friends in Michigan, kimmo, spiveroo, stewie, smeezer, and boo, are all excited about Vermont Country Store’s latest offering. Just add water.  Specify shipping method desired.  All major credit cards accepted.  Other colors and styles available.

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Boxes Explained

Posted on March 24, 2013

This morning Bugs finally deigned to enlighten us — dear Readers, we who are his acolytes — as to what is the thing with cats and boxes. Recall this question was stimulated by the pods in which my birthday presents … Continue reading →

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Barney’s Ruff

Posted on March 22, 2013

I’m puzzling about Barney’s ruff.  Here’s a picture of him in September of last year, not long after he arrived. Here’s one of him recently. Here’s another one, from underneath. Side-by-side for comparison purposes.  Left, September.  Right, now. I swear … Continue reading →

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Home In Hospice

Posted on March 19, 2013

A person with whom I have had a history struggled for a long time with the illness that finally brought her to hospice.  Wanting to make peace, I visited her there recently.  She was not conscious – – but imagine … Continue reading →

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Birthday Box It!

Posted on March 18, 2013

We are finally normal over here.  Which will come as a surprise to those of you who know me, but I guess there is an upside to getting older after all.  I refer, of course, to boxes.  Finally the boys … Continue reading →

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