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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.Animal Bill of Rights
Monthly Archives: December 2010
Wicked Optimism, Comprehensive Gloom, Paulian Agape
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
Posted in Philosophy-Psychology, Uncategorized
Tagged Agape, Aristotle, East Coker, Four Quartets, hedgehog, J. Alfred Prufrock, Jung, pessimism, Phronesis, Roger Scruton, Schopenhauer, St. Paul, T.S. Eliot
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Don’t Touch That Dial
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
Posted in Things Cats, Humans Do, Uncategorized
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Internal Rejecting Object (IRO) No. One: Trust is For Saps
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
Posted in Philosophy-Psychology, Uncategorized
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Bugs’s Excellent Adventure: Intro
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
Posted in Uncategorized
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Why Love For Other Species Ought To Save the World
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
Posted in Empathy, Philosophy-Psychology, Uncategorized
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Bugs the Prenatal Caregiver MidBeing
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
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Francisco Varela, house cat, Humberto Maturana, indoor cat, love
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Teresa of Tellington; Bugs (Un)Touchable
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
Posted in Tellington Touch, TTouch, Uncategorized
Tagged claws, Mondo, Purrfect Post, purrfectpost, scratching post, Tellington Touch, TTouch
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Not-Knowingness; Love; Conversing With Bugs
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
Knowing What We Don’t Know
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
Certainty is Not Biologically Justifiable. I’m Sure About That.
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
Posted in Philosophy-Psychology, Uncategorized
Tagged cat, Dr. David Dosa, Oscar the Death Cat, Robert Burton
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