Of Cats And People...

Her Fluffiness, Miss K.

If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr. - Martin Delany

 

Happy Memorial Day!

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. - Joseph Campbell

Happy Memorial Day! 

Formerly known as a Decoration Day, Memorial Day commemorates all men and women who have died in military service for the United States. Memorial Day is observed on the last Monday of May.  

Originally Memorial Day was an event to honor Union soldiers, who had died during the American Civil War. The holiday was inspired by the way people in the Southern states honored their dead. After World War I, it was extended to include all men and women, who died in any war or military action. The current name for this day did not come into use until after World War II.

Quote of the Day

 The Sleepwalker - Maximilian Pirner, 1878

Our fantastic civilization has fallen out of touch with many aspects of nature, and with none more completely than with night. Primitive folk, gathered at a cave mouth round a fire, do not fear night; they fear, rather, the energies and creatures to whom night gives power; we of the age of the machines, having delivered ourselves of nocturnal enemies, now have a dislike of night itself. 

With lights and ever more lights, we drive the holiness and beauty of night back to the forests and the sea; the little villages, the crossroads even, will have none of it. Are modern folk, perhaps, afraid of night? Do they fear that vast serenity, the mystery of infinite space, the austerity of stars? 

Having made themselves at home in a civilization obsessed with power, which explains its whole world in terms of energy, do they fear at night for their dull acquiescence and the pattern of their beliefs? Be the answer what it will, to-day's civilization is full of people who have not the slightest notion of the character or the poetry of night, who have never even seen night. Yet to live thus, to know only artificial night, is as absurd and evil as to know only artificial day. 

By Henry Beston, in "The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod"