Observations on a Sunday

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMknrmuDD0o

The sun shines abundantly, scattering cheer in the wake of the gray gloom that was yesterday. The iridescence brings out the tiny flaws that the drabness hid, each now a pockmark on the landscape. Minute particles float blithely, gliding in a new dance when the air stirs.

A glow fills the room. The blinds filter the light making a dingy room seem only mellow. Thomas Kincaid in a bedroom in Texas.

Pogo's feed me meow loops constantly until it numbs the senses. Tyranny in fur. Once sated, like an old man, he totters to his spot to soak up the warmth of Sol.

Satchmo sprints from living room to kitchen, chasing invisible mice. He prepares for the day when his skills will elevate him to hero status. Then he waddles like an ancient possum to his hidey-hole to chase mice in his dreams.

I miss you, Dude.

Later.

Contemplate this

Some truisms:

1. Fanatics, no matter what the cause, are dangerous.
2. Technology just means rumors travel faster and wider.
3. Some people allow others to do their thinking. What do you think?
4. Eventually you have to own up.

The Naming Of Cats

T.S. Eliot

The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter,
It isn't just one of your holiday games;
You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter
When I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES.
First of all, there's the name that the family use daily,
Such as Peter, Augustus, Alonzo or James,
Such as Victor or Jonathan, George or Bill Bailey--
All of them sensible everyday names.
There are fancier names if you think they sound sweeter,
Some for the gentlemen, some for the dames:
Such as Plato, Admetus, Electra, Demeter--
But all of them sensible everyday names.
But I tell you, a cat needs a name that's particular,
A name that's peculiar, and more dignified,
Else how can he keep up his tail perpendicular,
Or spread out his whiskers, or cherish his pride?
Of names of this kind, I can give you a quorum,
Such as Munkustrap, Quaxo, or Coricopat,
Such as Bombalurina, or else Jellylorum-
Names that never belong to more than one cat.
But above and beyond there's still one name left over,
And that is the name that you never will guess;
The name that no human research can discover--
But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess.
When you notice a cat in profound meditation,
The reason, I tell you, is always the same:
His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation
Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name:
His ineffable effable
Effanineffable
Deep and inscrutable singular Name.

Later, Dude.