Cryin' Time

[Lightning Rod]

Part of the inherent misery in the human situation is that we get attached to things. We get attached to things and places and more importantly, we get attached to other people and pets.

As I write I am in a state of impending grief. Our cat Wink has disappeared. He was an old man. I guess that's why we got along so well. Every morning for the past several years the first thing that I do is go to the back door where Wink is waiting. It's a glass paned door and his wide green eyes are shining at me from his black background. I let him in and say, "good morning, sir." and he meows and proceeds to his dish. After munching a bit of kibble he invariably hops up into my lap as I'm trying to read my morning email. Then he will normally curl up on the chair that I have next to mine (just for him) and spend the rest of the morning with me as I write.

Today Wink wasn't at the back door. Last night when he went out he was walking slowly and mewing in a different tone than usual. I could tell he was sick. We thought he would come back in, but he disappeared into the bushes. I have looked in all of his usual hiding places and under every bush on the premises and Wink is not to be found. I think that he might have pulled the old Indian trick and wandered off to die in the wilderness where he won't burden the rest of the tribe with his moans or his remains. There is style and grace in that.

[stilltrucking]

Sorry to hear about the lost of your four footed friend. Maybe another cat will sense your grief and find you. I have never gone looking for a cat to own. They seem to find me.

[Doreen Peri]

I'm trying to figure out how to merge this with the other thread I posted but I can't figure it out. I'm a dummy.

[WIREMAN]

lrod....my cat Chief went into a funk and disappeared a couple weeks ago, he came back a couple days later movin real slow so CJ took him to the vet and got the either put him to sleep or try this antibiotic, it's been a couple weeks now and he's making a slow recovery, he's finally gettin up with me in the wee hours again. Give Wink a couple days, in my experience cats hide out when they get real sick, he sure is one awesome cat .....mark

[Rat Bag]

Wow, Rod. Your short piece of writing here is filled with so much emotion I think I'm about to cry myself, and I'm not even that big a fan of cats. I never realised you had such a glowing feminine side that you could convey so devistatingly in prose. If I had even suspected as much I would certainly have approached this thread title with much more caution.

Boo hoo. Damn you for making me sad.

Anywho, I send you and Dor all the love and serenity you need to deal with this loss (if Winks doesn't come back, of course) and I send some warmth that you both might feel strong.

*hug* (look at me, dammit! you're turning me into a girl. Stop writing such moving prose. J/K)

[Lightning Rod]

thank you RB for the compliment

that's all a writer wants to do

make somebody else feel something

[K&D]

same with filmmakers...i feel bad because one of my teachers he kind of slamed on docs, and he was right there not objective films that posse as objective and in that sence are very munipulative, i don't want to be munipulative, i want to inspire change.

i do have ethics though, much more then some i've seen in Michal Moore films.