NaBloPoMo Day 7: Prized Posessions

Friday, February 7, 2014
Show Me Fridays: upload an image to your blog (with or without words) of your most prized possession.

I have a lot of prized posessions but my new tablet is my life-saver these days! I got it during NaNo because my laptop screen died, which turned it into a desktop, but this is a lot nicer to carry around to be honest and it's a lot easier on the eyes than my phone, since the blue-light removal program actually WORKS on the tablet lol. :)

NaBloPoMo Day 6: My House from the POV of Oreo the Cat

Thursday, February 6, 2014Do you have a pet? Describe your house from the perspective of your pet.

It's big with lots of corners and I get free range of the whole house now that there are no other cats, but my favorite places are all the way high-up. There's a grey ottoman in the little girl's room with the weird sleeping place with two beds one tall and one short. There's a nice chair in the TV room and my two scratching boxes on the floor! And then there's the window with the chair with the red pillows that gets lots of sun where i can watch the humans eat across the way from my food dish.

It's quiet a lot of the time since most of the humans aren't home that often.


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NaBloPoMo Day 5: Explain blogging to an alien without using the word blog in your explanation!

Wednesday, February 5, 2014 You meet an alien and need to explain to it blogging. Explain what blogging is (and what blogging means to you) without ever using the word "blog."

"Greetings, I am very wary about your kind, but you seem like an approachable individual." 

"Hi, um, hold on a sec, let me finish blogging, then I can talk properly."  

There's a long pause as the woman finishes up typing on the strange flat device in her hands. "Okay, done... so hi. I'm Emma, what can I help you with?"

"What is that thing called blogging that you were doing?"

"It's a lot of things and it depends on who you ask too. For me, it's writing in some form most of the time. Sometimes to tell about how I feel on a topic, sometimes to just get information out to others, or to share information I've heard of. Sometimes it works like a captain's log, you have one of those on your ship, right?"

"Yes, we have captain's logs, but mostly those say what we have on board or where we have been." 

"This can be like that too but more public. More often than not people use it to expand on where they have been and what they have done. How they react to their lives. Sometimes even ask questions of each other. Or make things up, depending on what they write about regularly." 

"That's interesting." 

"It is! I love it because I can write about things and think about them and have a record to look back and see where things have changed in my life." 

February NaBloPoMo Day 4: Seeing through another's eyes

Tuesday, February 4, 2014 Do you think it's possible to ever truly see the world from another person's perspective, or are we held so tightly to our own way of viewing the world?

I think it is possible to see the world from another's perspective, though I DO think that our own views will color that. I think that recognizing people's differences are so very important in being good citizens, however I also think that everyone's view brings something important to the table.

NaBloPoMo February 2014 Day 3: Cat Receiving Work

Monday, February 3, 2014
Write about an event that happened today. Now write about it from the perspective of someone else in the room -- your child, your partner, a person dining in the same restaurant... your choice.

So I am a cat volunteer at my local animal shelter and back in December I got trained to do the backroom -- I am one of the few long-standing volunteers who had never set foot back there so I asked the woman who trained me if she'd show me how it was done a few weeks ago. We also don't have a lot of cats right now at the shelter that can be taken care of (some are sick, some are being scratch/bite -quarantined, a lot got adopted and/or transferred to other shelters).

So today I went through with the tail end of doing it myself training in the backroom. I was mildly surprised by the first cat on my list. It said it was a "feisty" cat but it wasn't exactly the type of feisty I was expecting. It was more of the feisty in an "I shall love you to death  and get in your way" cat.

It was interesting though unfortunately I spilled all its toys into the trash bin.


Harriet the Cat POV
These two humans are standing in front of my cage looking at me. I hope one of them is gonna feed me. Ooh the smaller one is coming closer. She's warm and she's paying attention to me. Ooh. I like this! Pet me! yay! Hey don't do that I want more pets! Ooh food! Food or pets! I want both! Keep paying attention to me.

NaBloPoMo Day 2: Spirituality Perspectives

Today's Imbolc, which is one of the wheel of the year holidays and the least known of all of them.

I recently joined a Unitarian Universalist church this past sumer officially and it's interesting that I finally found a church that suits me. I was raised Catholic and I still consider myself some flavor of Christian to a degree, but I also find that earth-based spiritualities and many other paths also call to me.

It was funny during service because we had a bat flying around the church. I was surprised that I didn't jump when I saw it and it made me happy to see. I usually hate swooping bats after a bad experience where one freaked me out at home.

Bats are good omens in most traditions, in spite of the fact that it's not healthy to have one flying around the building. People were making light-hearted jokes about it throughout the service until it settled or went back to its nest (I'm not sure which).

It was an interesting shift in perspective to not freak out about the bat and to experience a circle that was a little different than usual.

I think though the thing I like most about Unitarian Universalist churches though is that the learning and seeking never ends! There's so many things that I can do that are missing in my family's Catholic church.

NaBloPoMo February 2014: Day 1: If I could live anywhere...

If I could live anywhere... 

- from Creative Journal Topics Involving Different Perspectives

If I could live anywhere, I would live with my fiance in a place where it's not quite so cold as New England, but it still has seasons. I would live in a decent-sized house with a small dog, a cat, and a rabbit. I would be able to go to work nearby and still have some space to do my own thing and write and knit and practice reiki.