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Precious Belle Adora

A little too much sugar for you?

Our landscape here is all powdered sugar. I couldn't help myself.

There is a story behind all this sweetness, though. Years ago I had another black & white kitten, every inch as sweet and entertaining and snuggly as this one. My friend Diane wanted to name her Precious. I resisted.

The senior cat at that time was an elegant, aloof tuxedo cat named Isadora.

I compromised by naming the kitten Precious Daphne Adora, to be called Daphne.

Thus, Precious Belle Adora, to be called Belle.

Boo is settling down. I actually caught her kissing Belle.

Not enough sugar for you? Try Flickr Hive Mind: kitten.

[Hmm. Maybe that should be Precious Adora Belle? You know, to sound more like ... Nevermind.]

Cold Moon

Each month I show you the same face,
and you call me a different name.

Now you call me Cold Moon,
but I am always cold.

You call me Long Night Moon,
but my nights are always long,

bright on one side, dark the other.
I am the same, always, and you

make of me what you desire. Magical,
monstrous, indifferent, muse.

I pull at your blood, and you
deny me. We yearn for one

another, stone of my stone, fire
of my fire, night of my night.
  

Dec. 12, 11:37 a.m. EST — Full Cold Moon; among some tribes, the Full Long Nights Moon. In this month the winter cold fastens its grip, and the nights are at their longest and darkest. Also sometimes called the Moon before Yule. The term Long Night Moon is a doubly appropriate name because the midwinter night is indeed long and the moon is above the horizon a long time. The midwinter full moon takes a high trajectory across the sky because it is opposite to the low Sun. The moon will also be at perigee later this day, at 5:00 p.m. EST, at a distance of 221,560 mi. (356,566 km.) from Earth. Very high ocean tides can be expected from the coincidence of perigee with full moon.
    

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