Do you trust your instincts?
One is born with instincts. Intuition is learned. Intuition would therefore be more likely to be trustworthy. But even then, one can’t make decisions based on intuition alone. Do I trust my intuition to make decisions? Partially, but intuition doesn’t get the full say here. We’ve got to look at facts and reasoning and all that higher level thinking stuff, as well.
What’s your favorite month of the year? Why?
Green grass under my feet, warm winds swirling about my head, making my hair dance. Lightning bugs. Daylight extending into evening, cicadas, all the flowers in bloom with bumblebees and honeybees and tough but harmless carpenter bees swirling about. Memories of previous Julys spent helping in the garden, digging in the sand at the beach, hanging laundry on clotheslines in the backyard. The feel of heat as a blanket wrapped around the body. The toes never get chilled. The fingers never feel like ice. Socks are not even a thought. Clothing is one layer, not twelve. Fall and winter are distant, disruptive thoughts. July is memory of warmth as the sun smiles at you from two feet away.
What is your favorite place to go in your city?
Alas.
If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be?
I’m already there, and it’s here.
What’s the coolest thing you’ve ever found (and kept)?
It’s in a shadowbox in my living room. I will treasure it forever.
Read my poem about the nest here
What part of your routine do you always try to skip if you can?
Mondays have a notorious reputation, which I have found most weeks to be a correct assessment of the day. I can’t explain this phenomenon, but Monday front loads most of the issues of the week and makes them unavoidable, rarely ever seen on another weekday.
I’ve tried to take Monday off, so that Tuesday is the new Monday, but Monday will have none of it. Skipping Monday to try to do Tuesday first does nothing but bring Monday types of problems and situations to an innocent day.
Monday never disappoints in its sheer audacity to present conundrums and issues that would cause any other day of the week to run and hide.
Mondays are made for things that could’ve been said in an email and multiple synchronous situations that can only be described as, “What the hell is this crap?”
Skipping this routine called Monday is impossible. You will find a smug Monday on a naive Tuesday if you try to skip it. It’s better to go with the flow, and by flow, I mean your piping will burst on a Monday when it was fine on a Sunday, and will be fixed by a Tuesday, but I digress…
Daily Prompt 2119: Who is the Most Famous or Infamous Person You Have Ever Met?
Watch this space (well, not figuratively, but you know what I mean).
What is good about having a pet?
For more information, kindly read yesterday’s daily prompt response entitled, “The Acquisition of Cats.” Also check out other posts I’ve made on cats via the menu.
Name the most expensive personal item you’ve ever purchased (not your home or car).
There is not one, and they are not bought. How one acquires cats is this: one shows up, and hours to months to years later, another one shows up. This repeats until you have between two and four or more cats at any given time.
Cats are not items. But cats require the purchase of many items such as food they will not eat and treats they selectively eat (if you get the wrong ones, they won’t eat them either). Cat toys are bought in the hundreds, only to be left alone in favor of scraps of paper that fall off of various items: shoelaces, plastic bottle caps, and various other waste materials. Expensive cat beds are left untouched in favor of tissue paper from discarded gift boxes, warm towels inadvertently left on a surface, and your own pants left carelessly on the chair.
The litter. The litter is so expensive that it often means going without at least two items of food for yourself per week to allow its purchase. And you must purchase it – it is not only irresponsible to let your cats outside, it is dangerous for the cats. There are a number of diseases they can pick up from other cats and other animals that live outside. Cats can become badly injured in cat fights and by human cars. But let’s get back to the litter: it’s not just the cost of the litter, it’s also the human labor that goes into maintaining the litter box. My current cat will not use clumping litter, so the human staff (me) must scoop the poop every day. It is one of my more glamorous roles in the household.
Other animals require similar amounts of expense, care and investment of time, but what other animal besides the cat expects these tasks to be performed without question? And yet, it is all worth it in the end, when the cat slow blinks at you and rubs their cheeks and tails against you in a sign of ownership and affection. They are telling you that they appreciate what you do for them, that they accept you no matter what you look like, or who you are, or what you’ve done in the past. (They are also telling you that you are not permitted to stop doing any of these things. Ever.)
The acquisition of cats is materially expensive, yes, but the unconditional love that is received from the feline in exchange is more than enough currency to pay for the acquisition of a cat.
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