Take Joy!: I'm Hiding!

Words to Consider

I bind myself today to the Holy Powers: Their hands to guide me, Their wisdom to teach me, Their ears to hear me, Their words to give me speech, my heart always to love Them. —Galina Krasskova
"Not to hurt our humble brethren in fur, feather or fin, is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission: to be of service to them whenever they require it.” ~Francis of Assisi
Tikkun Olam (roughly translated, I understand, as Heal the World)
“It is not incumbent upon you to complete the work, but neither are you at liberty to desist from it.” –Rabbi Tarfon.
"And the Bastard grant us, in our direst need, the smallest gifts: the nail of the horseshoe, the pin of the axle, the feather at the pivot point, the pebble at the mountain's peak, the kiss in despair, the one right word. In darkness, understanding." -- Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold
"There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious-makes you so sick at heart-that you can't take part. You can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!" - Mario Savio
"They tell us that we live in a great free republic; that our institutions are democratic; that we are a free and self-governing people. That is too much, even for a joke. ... Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder... And that is war in a nutshell. The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles." —Eugene Victor Debs
i do it for the joy it brings / because i am a joyful girl / because the world owes me nothing / and we owe each other the world / i do it because it's the least i can do / i do it because i learned it from you / i do it just because i want to / because I want to —"Joyful Girl", Ani DiFranco
"Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because the time is short. Civilization is another word for respect for life." - Elizabeth Goudge, author of The Joy of the Snow

Sigrdrifa's Prayer

Hail to the Day / Hail to Day’s Sons / Hail to the Night and her Daughters / With loving eyes look upon us here / And bring victory to those who have gathered / Hail to the gods / Hail to the goddesses / Hail to the mighty, fecund Earth / Eloquence and native wit bestow on us / And healing hands while we live

I'm Hiding!

Ocie among the lace and fabric . . . come aboard The Friday Ark with us to see many, many more critters, camouflaged or not!

The backstory: we went over to Mom and Daddy's the other day, to deliver some eggs and get a piece of shearling knit I wanted to make some sheep dolls . . . of course, it didn't stop there. We returned bearing not only the shearling, but also a bag of fabric (that stack on the left) and two bags of vintage trim (it came from The Attic . . . ). Since I needed to do other things right then, I just stuck the fabric and bags of trim in the cubbyhole under my counter, thinking that I'd sort things out in a day or so when I had more time (and I need to go through the big container of trim anyway, and untangle the pieces that I just stuck back in anyhow when I was through with them, amd wind everything up on cardboard so I can actually find something when I want it, and take out the doll-clothes-sized pieces and put them somewhere else . . . you see why I've been putting it off, don't you?). Anyway, Ocie decided that since the bag had come from a house with strange cats in it, it needed investigating—so she squirmed into the bag backward. I just happened to be standing there, and got out the camera just in time. Another minute and she was gone.

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December 2023