Friday, April 25, 2014

Observation of a Couple



He looked at her,
She looked away.
He reached for her,
She looked away.
He touched her hand,
She looked away.
Are you here, he asked?
She looked away.
Please come to me.
She looked away, she looked away.









Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Happy Gotcha Day Bosco


Some of the blogs I read follow a tradition they call "Throwback Thursday".  This Throwback Thursday is twofold for me and one of my kids. Today is Bosco's birthday/gotcha day. I know Gotcha Days are supposed to be the day one officially adopts a pet. I knew he was my Gotcha from Day One.

I first met little Boz on the day he was born and knew, especially after his Mama's owner later told me she was going to keep the kittens as mousers at her horse barn, that when the time came, he was coming home with me.  Now don't get me wrong, being a mouser at a horse barn for some kitties is a fun and admirable profession. But there was something I sensed in Bosco and it did not scream "MOUSER!" He seemed a little more sensitive than a professional pest control officer. And when I brought him home at six weeks, I knew I was right.

He has been my shadow for the past eight years, my bedfellow, my sweet guy, my little gay boy. He has the sweetest little voice and he loves to talk, but he only talks to me. He's afraid of the sound of  the doorbell, but he loves to sit in front of the open glass door when the sun is shining through. He never lets me be alone in my bathroom, which is probably too much information, but it's always nice to get out of the shower and see him on the counter waiting for me, talking in his sweet, small voice.

Happy Birthday/Gotcha day, my sweet Bosco.













Sunday, April 13, 2014

Dream A Little Dream



For the past three nights, I have had three different, but similar dreams. Each dream was in a different place, but had the same theme. In the first dream, I was in a large mansion, almost like a castle. The second dream was set in a huge meadow, with barns and sheds set about. The third was in a Las Vegas, almost circus, like setting. I was with large groups of people, they all partying and having fun in the large settings, all milling about amid chaos. In each dream, I had no money, had lost my phone and if I held an iPad, it was someone else's. I knew no one. And I was terrified, almost hysterical in my search for my things and a way out of the bedlam. The people in the dream would try to distract me from my fear with varying degrees of success.

There were odd activities happening all around. At one time, there were three people sailing up in a boat wanting me to go with them, even though there was no water. There were also the flyers, which in a normal situation I would have been fascinated with as it is something I've always wanted to do, but these flyers were more swoopers, more raptor like. All I wanted was to get away, away from what I did not know, away from these people. In each dream, I would run through a labyrinth, terrified and knowing that I would not find the exit.

I would suddenly wake up, my body dripping with sweat, my breathing rapid and shallow. I would search around my always dark bedroom for any sign of unfamiliar light. I would put my hands out around me to feel for the warmth of my cats. Feeling comfortable that I had awoken and all was well, I would relax back into the pillows. Then the worst part would happen. I would fall back asleep and the dreams would begin as they had left off.

~MfT

Thursday, April 10, 2014

Significance of Fifty


In Humans: the "petals" of the 7 main chakras total 50.
Prime Factors of 50=2x5x5.
50 can be Partitioned 26 times with each term no larger than 2.
50 can be Partitioned 234 times with each term no larger than 3.
50 can be Partitioned 1154 times with each term no larger than 4.
Sum of the squares of the Pythagorean 3-4- triangle= 9 + 16 + 25 = 50
50 is a Hexagonal Pyramidal Number. Sum of the 1st three abundant numbers 12 + 18 + 20 = 50
50 is the smallest number that can be written as the sum of of 2 squares in 2 ways.
The moon is fifty times smaller than the Earth.
The Chemical Element Tin has an atomic number of 50.
The 50 sticks, all the same length, which are handled in the consultation of the Yi King.
The 50 Gates of Understanding in the Kabbalistic tradition correspond with 50 levels of consciousness from unconscious rock through to an enlightened being. They represent the first (counting upwards from 10 to 4) 7 sephiroth on the tree of life (with each of the 7 containing every other of the 7 sephirth) + Binna the Gate of Understanding: 49+1=50.
The 50 letters in the sacred Sanskrit alphabet.
The 50 grains of the rosary Aksha-Mala of Indians.
Film: 50 First Dates.
(Source: virtuescience.com)

50 DAYS SMOKE FREE!!!!
(Source: Melinda's Lungs)

Sunday, April 6, 2014

Thoughts On A Bridge

 
The river water was calm. The wind was quiet and still, as was her mood. She sat on the bridge, dangling her legs over the edge, her head resting on her left arm on the guardrail. She flicked pebbles into the dark water below with her right thumb, as if they were marbles. She wondered how many others had sat here. She wondered what thoughts might have gone through their heads. She wondered how many of them eventually got up and walked back to their lives.

She wondered how many of them jumped, and wished they hadn't.