Belated: After Midnight

2007-08-13 Thread Deborah Harrell 
 Ronn! Blankenship wrote:

 That era started about 11:15 last night...

I'm so sorry to hear that, Ronn-

Debbi
Our Buddies Maru:(


   

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Re: After Midnight

2007-08-04 Thread Carolyn L Burke 
 From: Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 On Aug 3, 2007, at 6:36 PM, Doug wrote:

  Their lives are way too short, aren't they?
 Those who say it's just a cat or it's just a dog just won't
 understand.

In her last days, Moppins was a tiny ball of long-furred love, always sitting on
the arm of my chair, on my lap, on my face while I slept. A puff of clinging
love. A purring epiphyte. Living almost solely on our companionship. I've missed
Moppins for a year now. There's been a palpable absence near me.
The Costa Rican rain forests are covered in epiphytes including bromeliads,
orchids and mosses, flowering and rich, home to frogs and insects and other
plants. Last month, walking through the paths with the canopy dozens and even
hundreds of feet overhead, thoroughly covered in colourful commensals and their
hosted ecologies, brought her back to me. As if she lived on in that place she'd
never been, within the thousands of green leaves.
It surprised me to find peace this way.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/DirkvdM_epiphytes.jpg/300px-DirkvdM_epiphytes.jpg

If only every goodbye found such grace.
Carolyn

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Re: After Midnight

2007-08-03 Thread Doug 
Their lives are way too short, aren't they?

I'm very sorry for your loss, Ronn!

Doug


Ronn! wrote:

 That era started about 11:15 last night.  I came
 in to eat some soup for lunch, then I have to
 return to trying to dig a hole in the
 drought-hardened soil in the back yard, which I
 started doing as soon as it became light enough to work this morning.


 Tears Maru


 --Ronn! :)  Tom =^.^= ,
   Spot (1992—96), Andy (1989—99),
 D.J. (1994±1?—2003), and Midnight (1999—2007)
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Re: After Midnight

2007-08-03 Thread Warren Ockrassa 
On Aug 3, 2007, at 6:36 PM, Doug wrote:

 Their lives are way too short, aren't they?

 I'm very sorry for your loss, Ronn!

Today Chris Clarke passed the six-month anniversary of the death of his 
beloved dog, Zeke.

He lit a candle for him. Some of us did the same, in our way.

http://faultline.org/index.php/site/comments/halb_yahrzeit/

Those who say it's just a cat or it's just a dog just won't 
understand.

http://indigestible.nightwares.com/2007/03/05/no-euthanasia-after-all/
http://www.nightwares.com/mira/

HP Lovecraft wrote of a place called Ulthar, a land wherein it was 
forbidden to kill a cat, because they were sweet companions and they 
guided the souls of travelers through the dark, cold spaces inhabited 
by the Elder Ones.

And Hart Crane, in Chaplinesque, wrote of love's sweetness in the 
nature of purring innocence.

 We make our meek adjustments,
 Contented with such random consolations
 As the wind deposits
 In slithered and too ample pockets.

 For we can still love the world, who find
 A famished kitten on the step, and know
 Recesses for it from the fury of the street,
 Or warm torn elbow coverts.

 We will sidestep, and to the final smirk
 Dally the doom of that inevitable thumb
 That slowly chafes its puckered index toward us,
 Facing the dull squint with what innocence
 And what surprise!

 And yet these fine collapses are not lies
 More than the pirouettes of any pliant cane;
 Our obsequies are, in a way, no enterprise.
 We can evade you, and all else but the heart:
 What blame to us if the heart live on.

 The game enforces smirks; but we have seen
 The moon in lonely alleys make
 A grail of laughter of an empty ash can,
 And through all sound of gaiety and quest
 Have heard a kitten in the wilderness.

Never, ever just a cat or just a dog.

--
Warren Ockrassa
Blog  | http://indigestible.nightwares.com/
Books | http://books.nightwares.com/
Web   | http://www.nightwares.com/

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RE: After Midnight

2007-08-02 Thread PAT MATHEWS 


Your kitty died? I'm sorry to hear that.


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From: Ronn! Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: After Midnight
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 13:08:02 -0500

That era started about 11:15 last night.  I came
in to eat some soup for lunch, then I have to
return to trying to dig a hole in the
drought-hardened soil in the back yard, which I
started doing as soon as it became light enough to work this morning.


Tears Maru


--Ronn! :)  Tom =^.^= ,
  Spot (1992—96), Andy (1989—99),
D.J. (1994±1?—2003), and Midnight (1999—2007)


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After Midnight

2007-08-02 Thread Ronn! Blankenship 
That era started about 11:15 last night.  I came 
in to eat some soup for lunch, then I have to 
return to trying to dig a hole in the 
drought-hardened soil in the back yard, which I 
started doing as soon as it became light enough to work this morning.


Tears Maru


--Ronn! :)  Tom =^.^= ,
  Spot (1992—96), Andy (1989—99), 
D.J. (1994±1?—2003), and Midnight (1999—2007)


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Re: After Midnight

2007-08-02 Thread Mauro Diotallevi 
On 8/2/07, Ronn! Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 That era started about 11:15 last night.

[snip]

 Midnight (1999—2007)


So sorry to hear that, Ronn.

-- 
Mauro Diotallevi
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Re: After Midnight

2007-08-02 Thread Julia Thompson 


On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Ronn! Blankenship wrote:

 That era started about 11:15 last night.  I came
 in to eat some soup for lunch, then I have to
 return to trying to dig a hole in the
 drought-hardened soil in the back yard, which I
 started doing as soon as it became light enough to work this morning.


 Tears Maru

I am sorry that you have lost a beloved cat.

Julia

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Re: After Midnight

2007-08-02 Thread William T Goodall 

On 2 Aug 2007, at 19:08, Ronn! Blankenship wrote:

 That era started about 11:15 last night.  I came
 in to eat some soup for lunch, then I have to
 return to trying to dig a hole in the
 drought-hardened soil in the back yard, which I
 started doing as soon as it became light enough to work this morning.



Sad news.

Commiseration Maru

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Re: After Midnight

2007-08-02 Thread Warren Ockrassa 
On Aug 2, 2007, at 11:08 AM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote:

 Tears Maru

Oh no. I know how that is. I know.

--
Warren Ockrassa
Blog  | http://indigestible.nightwares.com/
Books | http://books.nightwares.com/
Web   | http://www.nightwares.com/

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