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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nLet us do our regular Monday with the cats. We have a strict Not On The Counter rule that the cats ignore. Lately, they’ve found a loophole. The Yankee received this package in the mail some time back and it’s just been sitting on this out-of-the-way corner. And so the cats jump up on the counter and sit on the box where, as Phoebe demonstrates here, she is not on the corner:<\/p>\n
<\/center><\/p>\nThey are also chewing on the box, both of them. They don’t eat it, they’re just destroying it bite by bite. I pick up the bits on the floor every day, and I am pretty sure they haven’t really thought this through. When they eat the box, they’ll be back on the counter, and we will set them in on the floor again.<\/p>\n
I’ve been asked why we always see pretty pictures of Phoebe, and pictures of Poseidon in his hijinks. Mostly it is because Phoebe is a good girl. And Poseidon does things like this:<\/p>\n
<\/center><\/p>\nNote the feet. Note the balance. <\/p>\n
Now, note the cuteness:<\/p>\n
<\/center><\/p>\nNow, note this wackadoo:<\/p>\n
<\/center><\/p>\nComputer? Enhance:<\/p>\n
<\/center><\/p>\nFound on a run this weekend, art which transports you from where you are, to, well, wherever this is going:<\/p>\n
<\/center><\/p>\nIt isn’t awkward at all when the homeowners notice you taking a picture of this. Or when you realize the artist was an adult.<\/p>\n
Just down from where I took that panorama picture at the top of the post, after you’ve walked down the hill and over the footbridge, there are two tennis courts and a small playground and a nice long walking path. It’s just down a second hill from an elementary school, and, as you might expect, there are a lot of kids in a nice spot like that. The teachers know that, too. And so up and down the path, they’d come out and left notes for their kids:<\/p>\n
<\/center><\/p>\nIt’s the cutest, saddest thing. Imagine the progress a teacher has made with those kids all year long, and it’s over in March. They haven’t canceled school for the year yet, but it’s coming. And from the point-of-view of the teachers, the big and little worries they must have. For that teacher it came down to the one message. Keep reading. <\/p>\n
I think I got in trouble for reading too much. If class bored me, and many classes did, there was a book in my lap. How do you scold a kid like that? Meanwhile, you’re worried about that child on the other side of the room that is in a real struggle? And now you, a compassionate teacher type, know they won’t be there in your class, to benefit from your training and experience in a formalized setting for a good long while. <\/p>\n
Spring is showing up. In the backyard:<\/p>\n
<\/center><\/p>\n<\/center><\/p>\nThese are all from one tree. And the blooms won’t stick around long enough, but what they portend is welcome:<\/p>\n
<\/center><\/p>\n<\/center><\/p>\nI think of that Moritsugu Katsumoto line a lot: “The perfect blossom is a rare thing. You could spend your entire life looking for one, and it would not be a wasted life.”<\/p>\n
<\/center><\/p>\nWho knows if they’re all perfect, or if the poetry there is really about the aspiration, or even the pursuit. It’s a nice thing to think about while you’re staring at the edges of fragile, fleeting things.<\/p>\n
Here we are down by the creek:<\/p>\n
<\/center><\/p>\nIt was a nice weekend to see the beginning of things to come. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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