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Moon

I float through my days on a soft cushion of medication.  I am in a big blow-up raft, high, and dry, and well away from deep water.  I focus on minutiae -- the foam bubbles at the surface; reflections of sky and trees.  Softly up, softly down, the current carries me where it will.

At mid-night, startled from a dream, I open my eyes to the glare of the full moon.   

Carnival of the Cats

Boo and Spike are pleased to host the 23rd Carnival of the Cats!  This week we have an extensive and varied offering:

From Athenamama:  For the Love of Athena and Cat of the day

From The People's Republic of Seabrook:  It's their world; I'm just coughing up the hairballs

From This Blog Is Full Of Crap:  Beware of the Cave Bear and Scardy-butt

From Cat Out Loud:  Hot weather and city cats

From limon:  cat blogging

From monkeycats:  excuse me??

From jenett.radio:  Greetings from MiMi and MoJo

From bloggg:  Weekend Cat Blogging

From Mind of Mog:  Wallpaper and All The News Fit To Pet

From Katieweb:  Friday Cat Pictures

From When Cats Attack:  10 Fun Ways To Annoy Your Cats

From Leslie's Omnibus:  Traveling Companions

From Your Moosey Fate:  Going Fast

From Feste...a foolsblog:  HaPPiNEss...

From Mr and Mrs McMuffin:  flies... and slinky is sleeping

From pomegranatesandpaper:  I'd like to lay around like a cat

From Trish Wilson's Blog (where we discovered Friday Cat blogging!):  Friday Cat Blogging and Friday Cat Blogging, Part II

From sisu:  The smallest feline is a masterpiece and Vietnam chickens come home to roost

From Sugarfused:  Elvis!

Oh, yes -- here at Watermark:  Cats & Computers

Late additions [my oversight] -- From What The Hell Am I Doing Here?:  Dept. of Am I Pompeii?

And, From Poetry Hut Blog:  Crowie & Jilly

Next week's Carnival will be at When Cats Attack; check there for info on how to submit your posts.  Until then, keep those cats happy and entertained!

Carnival of the Cats

It's coming! -- Just taking a bit longer than I expected . . .

An Old Poem

august 21

you write
that you are ill
feverish

in some narrow
foreign bed
tangled

in dim
damp sheets
sun steaming

through a dingy
window
and I hope

that you are not
entangled so
alone

what cannot
be held must be
freely given

Cats & Computers

From Eeksy-Peeksy:

The Cat's Ass

The fat cat sat on the edge of the keyboard tonight and typed this:
zzzzzyyyzyzyzyz AAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa 1
and managed to exchange the y and z keys. I don't know how. You type y and get z. You type z and get y.

Luckily, I had just finished my monograph on syzygy.

From Catnip & Catnaps:

Your Cat's Guide to Your Computer

. . . Forget the sewing basket with the spools of thread. Forget the laundry hamper with shreddable panty hose. Computers are much more attractive. . . Not surprisingly, a good portion of the Information Superhighway is devoted to cats, their worship, their maladies, their whims, their wit, and even (how could we forget?) their intelligence. . .

From Leslie's Omnibus:

A Website For Cats!

How It Works:

1) Pick one of our 6 critters, (bird, bee, butterfly, bat, groundhog, or red buggy.) and click on it.
When the program is finished loading, your critter will move randomly around the screen.

Your kitty will love the moving critter and be a good kitty for the rest of his life.

If you really want to deny your cat the joy of computers, you might try Cat-Proofing Computers.

 

And let's not forget the the Carnival of the Cats, which will be hosted here this week.  Here is the Carnival of the Cats FAQ, answers to all your questions.  Send the URL of your entry to me at blogdiva (at) gmail.com, by 5 PM Mountain Time (1700) Sunday, August 29th, and I will have the Carnival up by 6 PM that day.

spongebob meets the duckies

spongebob meets the duckies 
Originally uploaded by groc.

This is sort of how these pills make me feel.

Bell

once I imagined the bell
all the rest came easily
the young man in the burgundy coat
lilies tolling their scent in the garden
pale moon over narrow streets, it all
dreamt itself into tall dark trees
shivering with sparrows and wind

the wind in the shutters
the nervous courtyard
something sacred at the altar
the pale child in her ghost dress
the book with its gossamer gilded pages
its thin black-pebbled cover
this docile child, butterfly wings

the old man bent into his cane
shuffling, shuffling, the pale moon
it all came quite easily, then
the moon walked into the mountains
the stars fell the old man fell
the lilies dropped their thick petals
the young man became a branch

scratching, scratching the window
the shutters opened their louvers the fan
making its ocean sound it all became
lightness and bright stripes on the wall
morning morning and I step into the garden
thick slow beat of pelican wings
into a cloud of pale moths

 

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Carnival of the Cats

You're the Cheshire Cat.

Which Alice in Wonderland Character are you?
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{I had to take this three times to get the Cat -- I wanted that smile!}

The Carnival of Cats is up -- and next week, Watermark will host it!  Now I know that a lot of the blogs I read do Friday Cat Blogging, at least sporadically, but rarely enter the Carnival.  This is Watermark's first experience as host, and I'm miiaaoowwing you -- please do it this week! 

Here is the Carnival of the Cats FAQ, answers to all your questions.  Send the URL of your entry to me at blogdiva (at) gmail.com, by 5 PM Mountain Time (1700) Sunday, August 29th, and I will have the Carnival up by 6 PM that day.

Gratitude II

ENCOURAGEMENT

This is what I drank my coffee from this morning.  I won it at What The Hell Am I Doing Here, by being visitor #10,000.  Once the caffeine hit, it occurred to me to check my own stats; sometime in the past few days Watermark passed 10,000 and is well on its way to 11,000 (any hits from my own computers are excluded from this count.)  Since visitors (and links, and comments) are the greatest encouragement, this seemed a good time to continue with my Gratitude posts.

So I began work on Gratitude II, with the intention of listing all the folks who have offered encouragement in this experiment, but you know what?  There are too many of you! 

The list goes on and on.  More than eighty blogs link to Watermark now, and some who linked early on have fallen off the list.  Others who offered encouragement in comments or by email would not show up on that list anyway.

Please, all of you, accept this blanket thank you, and know that I mean it.  You all have made Watermark a Marauding Marsupial.