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Cat to Self: The Conversation by Anita Schnee is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
Category Archives: Music
Fog Does Lift
In the unsettling, unseasonable heat that is this first of April – Where, fully one month too soon, the lettuce is already bolting – Bugsy is having tummy issues again. And I myself have fumbled into the freefloating anxiety that … Continue reading
Posted in Empathy, Kindness, Music, Philosophy-Psychology, Things Cats, Humans Do
Tagged anxiety, betrayal, bewilderment, cats, change, climate crisis, confusion, digestion, trust, unseasonable spring
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Bugs Considers Another Bean; Bean Likewise Vice Verse
Hello reader-beans. Bugs here again. Bean has been rocked back on her ass for a few days, by various Bad Things that apparently needed her urgent and bad-tempered attention. She asked me to tell you she’s doing fine now, though. … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Things Cats, Humans Do, Uncategorized
Tagged Bandiagara, Berwick, Black Swan, bunkers, Catherine Destivelle, Danny MacAskill, Edinburgh, Highlands, Hitler, ki-ai, Loch Lomond, Lowlands, Mali, martial arts, MegaSkill, Natalie Portman, North Berwick, Scotland, Skye, The Jezebels, Way Back Home, west africa, World War II
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Bugs Plays The Djembe
Ma. I know that rhythm. I want to play it. Bean: Gosh, Bugs, I don’t know. You know what a pain in the patooty it is to replace drum-heads. Remember the little drum I let you play a while back? … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Pictures, Things Cats, Humans Do
Tagged cats, djembe, drum, re-head, re-string
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Can This Be Bugs?
This is how Bugs usually reacts to any crink in the weather involving stuff coming out of the sky and making noise. So yesterday there’s me racing to finish cutting the lawn before yet another spring storm. There’s Teresa starting … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Pictures, Things Cats, Humans Do
Tagged Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Long Walk To Freedom
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Paws Across The Water
A blogmate, living far away from her family of origin, writes of her grandmother’s burial yesterday. http://alifebewhiskered.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/a-pair-of-pillow-pusses/ This post is dedicated to everybody in that family who’s touched by this passing. And to the rest of us who have been … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Pictures, Uncategorized
Tagged Still On The Journey, Sweet Honey and the Rock
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Metaphor Mash-Up
Here are some pictures of Bugs taken shortly after our Tellington session the other day. You can see how gracious he was. What you can’t see is how full of verve and sass also. We had to have another little … Continue reading
A Dash of Tropics, A Dash of Grief
Dear blogmates, the time has come to face up – a little, gently – to sorrow. This is a freezing dull gray morning in Arkansas, we’re looking for it to snow soon, the holidays are over and the legal project’s … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Philosophy-Psychology
Tagged AfroCubism, Buena Vista Social Club, Farley Mowat, The Dog Who Wouldn't Be
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