The Crow: Cone Has a Friend

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Cone Has a Friend

Cone has found a friend. Its name is Ball. I don't know where Ball came from, but it was in the back yard when I went out to rake leaves today.

I've often thought that there's a cat grapevine, along which cats leave messages about which yards to steer clear of, where a homeless cat can find a free meal, which house has a crazy dog (or worse, a crazy old cat lady), where Spike the Slasher claims territory and stuff like that. Now I wonder if discarded plastic things have a grapevine, too.

And notice their shapes? Maybe the next stray will be a cube.

(Photo of Cone and Ball (C) M. C. McLemore, OCT 2008)

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Meaningful Quotes

"We are displaced by time."

-Marian Marshall Suplee Griest, late (first) mother-in-law, spoken to me in January 1994, in a dream after her death.

"We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen." - D. H. Lawrence (via Whiskey River, 8-22-2014)

"There is something scary about letting ourselves
go. It means that we will screw up, that we will relinquish the possibility of perfection. It means that we will say things we didn't mean to say and express feelings we can't explain. It means that we will be onstage and not have complete control, that we won't know what we're going to play until we begin,
until the bow is drawn across the strings.

While this spontaneous method might be frightening, it's also an extremely valuable source of creativity. The lesson about letting go is that we contain our own creativity. We are so worried about playing the wrong note or saying the wrong thing that we end up with nothing at all." - Jonah Lehrer (via Whiskey River, 10/22/2014)