Angel, Cut That Out! Blogging
Yesterday was dark and damp and psychologically cold even if the outside temperature was relatively mild. So this human made her coffee and went back to bed with a large book. All she wanted was to huddle under the blankies and turn pages. Instead, every 5 minutes or so, it was get up and yell at... you guessed it, Angel! In the course of a single morning he irritated everyone but Banshee, and that must have been an oversight. And he was tricksy about it, too. The human would run to the rescue, and Angel would slither out of sight and wait it out, only to pounce again once the human was back in bed, all comfy and warm. This seemed to go on, well, forever. Eventually, exhausted but triumphant, Angel joined the human in bed, where he, at least, snoozed long and hard.
posted by Lizzy at 5:55 AM
3 Comments:
Lizzy and PC,
I have just spent the most emotional afternoon reading the post on this link (I can't remember how to do the link so you can go to it if you just click on it):
http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2008/01/remembering-and.html?cid=96202982#comment-96202982
Hilzoy on Obsidian Wings posted about the death of Major Andy Olmsted who blogged about his experiences in Iraq.
I read it a day or so ago on Huffington Post. I went back to it today on Obsidian Wings to see the comments. All afternoon people have been adding comments because the story has been written in a number of newspapers all over the country and they keep linking in from those stories.
Everyone is sharing the emotions of losing a soldier, even if you didn't know him.
I feel wrung out by the tears that just won't stop.
This is why your blog is so important to me. It helps cushion the everyday pain of the things that you can't change in this bad old world. It reminds me that even in the midst of the despair, you can find refuge in the antics of your 922 cats and kittens.
I've been having trouble making friends with 2008. I feel I don't want to step into it. But then I read how you go each week to protest and I realize that we each have our way of dealing with this country.
Andy Olmsted was a true hero. He didn't die in vain, no matter how much we may wish he didn't have to be fighting in Iraq. He had a sense of what was the right place and time for him to serve. I honor that and I hope we can bring home his brothers-in-arms sooner than later.
Hope you don't mind my sharing this with you.
Hi, Sandy -
I'm very glad you wrote this - I've just left off reading some of the posts and comments at Obsidian Wings, and I, too, am in tears. Every so often I catch Jon Elliott's monthly reading of the names and ages of the American war dead - that is unbelievably heart-breaking as well. And every week Pam, the principal organizer of the protest I support, prints up stickers with the current American death toll, and sticks them to us - every week I unstick on my dashboard or in my kitchen, and there are all these disjointed numbers which are so devastating whenever you stop to think about what they mean... If my little guys give a little bit of comfort, that comforts me. And speaking of Jon Elliott, right now I'm listening to Dennis and Elizabeth Kucinich! Also a source of comfort....
Dear Sandy, dear Lizzy,
May we consider ourselves friends, if only virtually? We're all agonizing about the terrible things that are happening around us. We're like-minded in that, dear souls. And Lizzy, thank you so much for the lovely stories of the little furries. Sweet Angel, who sleeps in enviable bliss after annoying all around him! If not for your little warm place, I sometimes think I should just die.
Sandy, thank you so much for sharing that, I'd read about it on HuffPo, but I'm so glad to know that there are others out there who feel as I do! Be well, be blessed. This is a New Year, and we will change what's happening. Trust in that, dear friends.
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