Trapped by My Love (in the Cage of Her Heart)
I’m trapped by my love in the cage of her heart/
Feels like I’m playing a Schrödinger’s part/
She says she loves me, but it’s just a game/
Sometimes I think I’m going insane.
Category: animals
It Was the Momovirus!
My beautiful cat Momo got sick earlier in the year, right about when Covid-19 started, so I joked with twisted humor that it was the Momovirus. In March, I found out her kidneys are failing, so as usual*, she and I addressed our fear with song. With thanks to the …
The Last Pleasure
Eating is the very first and last pleasure our animal nature experiences. Babies cry at birth and are quieted with milk. You know it’s time to let go of the family dog when he no longer wants to eat. Far from a mindless sensation of hunger, though, eating at the …
Yoga Handicaps
Yoga Blocks Help You Modify Difficult Poses I started a home yoga practice three or four months ago that has been thoroughly rewarding, but sometimes I get so obsessed with the careful pattern I’m creating (kitchen clean-up, tea, yoga mat, music, centering, salutations, standing poses, table poses, seated, prone, supine, …
Bee Comedy/ Tragedy
Another, happier bee When I was driving on 46 yesterday, something landed in my bra, between my breasts. Eeek! When I was able to take a peek, I found a bee. As I gingerly turned into a side road (regretting the weight I had gained that made squashing the bee …
Portia
Mary K Swanson Today, I am a year older. At least, today is when I admit that I am. November 1, I lost my alter ego, the cat I have been carrying with me for almost 20 years. I didn’t realize until I started to write this that when she …