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[Pamcake1]

Emperor's new clothes files:

See below an apology to creatives from Apple and a withdrawl of their ad for the latest ipad.
Considering that they would have spent several million on creating this ad and that Apple approved it an apolgy isn't actually enough.
Obviously it is actually what they and most of Silicon valley do think of 'creatives' and this is why cultural creation, it's funding and art for arts sake is in the void.
"Sorry we missed the mark."

Apple Says Destructive iPad Ad ‘Missed the Mark’

People in the creative world widely panned a commercial showing a giant hydraulic press squishing objects ranging from paint cans to a piano.

www.nytimes.com

 

[moginie]

Emperor's new clothes files:

See below an apology to creatives from Apple and a withdrawl of their ad for the latest ipad.
Considering that they would have spent several million on creating this ad and that Apple approved it an apolgy isn't actually enough.
Obviously it is actually what they and most of Silicon valley do think of 'creatives' and this is why cultural creation, it's funding and art for arts sake is in the void.
"Sorry we missed the mark."

Apple Says Destructive iPad Ad ‘Missed the Mark’

People in the creative world widely panned a commercial showing a giant hydraulic press squishing objects ranging from paint cans to a piano.

www.nytimes.com

The tone deaf marketing department fails to read the room.

Fractional compassion.

 

[Pamcake1]

Going to burn through my 10 share articles a month from the NYTimes but I don't care as this story is well worth it.
I believe the woo woo that animals communicate to people that are open to dealing with them, as characters and not just plush toys that are alive or a problem.

The Unwanted Shelter Dog Who Found His Way to Westminster

An animal whisperer and her feisty mutt Miles are among the hopefuls at the dog show’s agility competition.

www.nytimes.com

 

[moginie]

Going to burn through my 10 share articles a month from the NYTimes but I don't care as this story is well worth it.
I believe the woo woo that animals communicate to people that are open to dealing with them, as characters and not just plush toys that are alive or a problem.

The Unwanted Shelter Dog Who Found His Way to Westminster

An animal whisperer and her feisty mutt Miles are among the hopefuls at the dog show’s agility competition.

www.nytimes.com

Miles is beautiful. Wonderful photo of him being good with his mother. Lovely, intelligent face.

The soppy wet pet gene runs strong and deep in my family and all my offspring have it too. At this very moment one of our cats has made himself very comfortable and exudes warmth and love on my lap. I can feel myself physically and mentally relax. I have no doubt that some people can really communicate with animals. And I'd love to be able to as much as them.

 

[3KZ is Football]

Emperor's new clothes files:

See below an apology to creatives from Apple and a withdrawl of their ad for the latest ipad.
Considering that they would have spent several million on creating this ad and that Apple approved it an apolgy isn't actually enough.
Obviously it is actually what they and most of Silicon valley do think of 'creatives' and this is why cultural creation, it's funding and art for arts sake is in the void.
"Sorry we missed the mark."

Apple Says Destructive iPad Ad ‘Missed the Mark’

People in the creative world widely panned a commercial showing a giant hydraulic press squishing objects ranging from paint cans to a piano.

www.nytimes.com

I saw this. Such hubris and ignorance.

 

[Pamcake1]

I saw this. Such hubris and ignorance.

It pays to exploit, dismiss and demean.
In that order.
It's a process that we are seeing across the board.
It doesn't pay, then dismiss and demean it.
Happening to the ecology, history, sociology, people etc.
Why I called it the Emperors new clothes....Apple was just caught naked doing it...but they are not the only ones.
Monoculture is when everything is reduced to one value...that value is money.
If it is not worth any $ then it is not worth anything.
The education is almost complete.
There are a few outposts.
This is one.

Introducing a scale model for the RZSS complaints department, I'd say Apple scores a 14 Cave

 

[3KZ is Football]

Definitely a 14.

 

[Pamcake1]

Word of the day: Grimalkin. Graymalkin old spelling.
("I come, Graymalkin." Shakespeare )

Thought of the day; Time is non linear.
(Each measure of time is a different time and the same time in the quantum realm.)

Song for the morning:
As all those excited molecules of the aurora australis dance around, don't fade away radiate.



4.00 a.m. Coolgardie

 

[Pamcake1]

Originals File:

 

[moginie]

And are you a grimalkin Pamcake1?

There was a book we used to read to our offspring and the leading cat character was called Mother Grymalkin. Iirc it was called A Day At The Seaside and was written at the turn of the last century. It was very sweet. I must try to find it now amongst the squillions of books in the house.

 

[Pamcake1]

And are you a grimalkin Pamcake1?

There was a book we used to read to our offspring and the leading cat character was called Mother Grymalkin. Iirc it was called A Day At The Seaside and was written at the turn of the last century. It was very sweet. I must try to find it now amongst the squillions of books in the house.

Which of the following answers is correct?
"Ask me not questions and I’ll tell you no lies."*
Only when I wash my hair on Saturdays and then it depends which way the wind blows.**
Not in this lifetime, the last or the next.
Illustration by Arthur Rackman.
*Attributed to the Irish playwright, Oliver Goldsmith, and his work, She Stoops to Conquer, written 1773
** Adaption of 'You don't have to be a weatherman to know which way the wind blows." Bob Dylan

 

[moginie]

Which of the following answers is correct?
"Ask me not questions and I’ll tell you no lies."*
Only when I was my hair on Saturdays and then it depends which way the wind blows.**
Not in this lifetime, the last or the next.
View attachment 1987794Illustration by Arthur Rackman.
*Attributed to the Irish playwright, Oliver Goldsmith, and his work, She Stoops to Conquer, written 1773
** Adaption of 'You don't have to be a weatherman to know which way the wind blows." Bob Dylan

I'd say that all three are correct. At any time.

And that's absolutely fine.

I'm off to be nice to people now. I've cleaned up the detritus of last night and done enough washing up for the moment. Whatever's left won't be running away anywhere before I get back.

Have a good one!

 

[3KZ is Football]

Word of the day: Grimalkin. Graymalkin old spelling.
("I come, Graymalkin." Shakespeare )

The Scottish Play!

Lady Macbeth ROCKS this play … up to a point, before Shakespeare loses his nerve, sends her mad and has her kill herself.

“Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood. Stop up the access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between The effect and it!” Act.1 Sc.5

Euripides, on the other hand, has Medea killing the kids, cursing Jason and riding off in a flaming chariot. A much stronger challenge to the Patriarchy.

 

[Pamcake1]

The Scottish Play!

Lady Macbeth ROCKS this play … up to a point, before Shakespeare loses his nerve, sends her mad and has her kill herself.

“Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood. Stop up the access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between The effect and it!” Act.1 Sc.5

Euripides, on the other hand, has Medea killing the kids, cursing Jason and riding off in a flaming chariot. A much stronger challenge to the Patriarchy.

Indeed...the Tartan Tragedy!
Like Lady Macbeth I must be possesed by an educative Gramalkin as I've got up to this today in the quooty thread and I think it has a place here also, as a lesson in 'making it up as you go along for the sake of your own amusement'.
Behold the silliness:


The obedience training school seminar will be starting shortly, bought to you by our sponsors of the week
'Space Grimalkins R Us'.

Seminar topics to include:
'From the Dummy to the Bottle; pacification of aggressive behaviour at feeding time.'
'Basic toilet training in the usage of AI; we know you can do it but there's a time and a place'.
'Playing Nice with Armaments & Incendiaries; judicious usage and preservation of own limbs.'
'Lead & Harness Training; how to walk without choking, how not to get overexcited when seeing the lead etc.'
'Separation Anxiety in Quooty; there's always next season, how and when to change clubs.'

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'From the Dummy to the Bottle; pacification of aggressive behaviour at feeding time.'
First exercise:
Place food in bowl. Command Sit. Place bowl on ground while maintaining eye contact, with finger raised command Wait. Wait however long necessary for settling and then wave hand towards bowl and command Eat.
When animal has finished eating remove bowl and put away.
If animal makes a move before command then pick up bowl, say No firmly, command Sit and repeat from the top.
Only feed after human eating is finished.
Never feed from table and do not allow in house when human feeding times are happening.
Only ever feed in bowl and train to only accept food when in the bowl.
With multiples train individually first, in pack order and then introduce to group feeding by commanding Sit to all and placing bowls a minimum of one metre apart.
Make sure to watch that each eats only their own until all are finished and then bowls are put away.

Now for the Guest lecture:



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'Basic toilet training in the usage of AI; we know you can do it but there's a time and a place'.

Exercise Two:
With the advent of AI and the training of older animals we reach a conundrum instantly of: can they do it and should they do it. Well they are going to do it whether you like it or not, so best prepare.
Keep in mind garbage in garbage out, illustrated above on the board.
What is digested can come out in a multiplicity of ways, as animals don't excrete on command nor necessarily in expected ways. Different breeds have different capacities, from the boisterous hound to the shy lap dog, all breeds are capable of producing. Some catch on faster than others, some are more observant, some need patient and continual redirection, just remember the aim is quality product over quantity.
Preparation is essential and you will require a large ground sheet to catch the excess, as well as a box of extra strength rubber gloves, size#8 spatular, all purpose tongs and refuse bags.
Now the secret to success is patience and a goodly dose of it.
Allow the animal privacy in doing their business, it can be difficult and anxiety is an ever present component.
Whatever the sounds coming from the room do not, I repeat do not disturb the animal.
Once the animal is finished they will let you know, either by exiting shamefaced with tail between their legs or as is most often as proud as punch with their production and wanting you to know it.
Enter the room very carefully having donned gloves and protective clothing beforehand.
Often there is a lingering odour depending on the effort extended, ventilate the room and using the tongs remove production to the groundsheet outside. Inspect carefully for parasites and other indications of corruption. If none then leave to dry in the sun otherwise dispose in refuse bags and burn later.
If your animal is of the primative mindset and doesn't want to engage in AI toilet training then that's ok too, They will in the fullness of time, let you know if they want to train sometime in the future and there's always plenty of time.

"Time is carving you, grasshopper. Let yourself be shaped according to your true nature." Master Po.

Inspirational film:

 

[3KZ is Football]

Indeed...the Tartan Tragedy!
Like Lady Macbeth I must be possesed by an educative Gramalkin as I've got up to this today in the quooty thread and I think it has a place here also as a lesson in 'making it up as you go along for the sake of your own amusement'.
Behold the silliness:


The obedience training school seminar will be starting shortly, bought to you by our sponsors of the week
'Space Grimalkins R Us'.
View attachment 1988051
Seminar topics to include:
'From the Dummy to the Bottle; pacification of aggressive behaviour at feeding time.'
'Basic toilet training in the usage of AI; we know you can do it but there's a time and a place'.
'Playing Nice with Armaments & Incendiaries; judicious usage and preservation of own limbs.'
'Lead & Harness Training; how to walk without choking, how not to get overexcited when seeing the lead etc.'
'Separation Anxiety in Quooty; there's always next season, how and when to change clubs.'

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View attachment 1988055
'From the Dummy to the Bottle; pacification of aggressive behaviour at feeding time.'
First exercise:
Place food in bowl. Command Sit. Place bowl on ground while maintaining eye contact, with finger raised command Wait. Wait however long necessary for settling and then wave hand towards bowl and command Eat.
When animal has finished eating remove bowl and put away.
If animal makes a move before command then pick up bowl, say No firmly, command Sit and repeat from the top.
Only feed after human eating is finished.
Never feed from table and do not allow in house when human feeding times are happening.
Only ever feed in bowl and train to only accept food when in the bowl.
With multiples train individually first, in pack order and then introduce to group feeding by commanding Sit to all and placing bowls a minimum of one metre apart.
Make sure to watch that each eats only their own until all are finished and then bowls are put away.

Now for the Guest lecture:



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View attachment 1988056
'Basic toilet training in the usage of AI; we know you can do it but there's a time and a place'.

Exercise Two:
With the advent of AI and the training of older animals we reach a conundrum instantly of: can they do it and should they do it. Well they are going to do it whether you like it or not, so best prepare.
Keep in mind garbage in garbage out, illustrated above on the board.
What is digested can come out in a multiplicity of ways, as animals don't excrete on command nor necessarily in expected ways. Different breeds have different capacities, from the boisterous hound to the shy lap dog, all breeds are capable of producing. Some catch on faster than others, some are more observant, some need patient and continual redirection, just remember the aim is quality product over quantity.
Preparation is essential and you will require a large ground sheet to catch the excess, as well as a box of extra strength rubber gloves, size#8 spatular, all purpose tongs and refuse bags.
Now the secret to success is patience and a goodly dose of it.
Allow the animal privacy in doing their business, it can be difficult and anxiety is an ever present component.
Whatever the sounds coming from the room do not, I repeat do not disturb the animal.
Once the animal is finished they will let you know, either by exiting shamefaced with tail between their legs or as is most often as proud as punch with their production and wanting you to know it.
Enter the room very carefully having donned gloves and protective clothing beforehand.
Often there is a lingering odour depending on the effort extended, ventilate the room and using the tongs remove production to the groundsheet outside. Inspect carefully for parasites and other indications of corruption. If none then leave to dry in the sun otherwise dispose in refuse bags and burn later.
If your animal is of the primative mindset and doesn't want to engage in AI toilet training then that's ok to, They will in the fullness of time, let you know if they want to train sometime in the future and there's always plenty of time.

"Time is carving you, grasshopper. Let yourself be shaped according to your true nature." Master Po.

Inspirational film:

There are not enough positive emoji’s Pamcake1. Instead you get a song …



‘Man Smart (Woman Smarter)’

 

[Pamcake1]

 

[Pamcake1]

Semantics and Semiotics Files:

I have been waiting for sign that someone else is so over the word 'journey' as metaphor.
Today in the NYTimes we have it in an article by Lisa Miller titled 'When Did Everything Become a ‘Journey’?'.
It is not possible to post the entire article as I have burned through my 10 shares for the month, instead I have taken the guts of the article below for salient points.
Like the monoculture as a result of attrition in the music biz the same in language.
'Right-speak' =reductive monocultural communication.
"I've heard it all before." The drone of messaging in a flat landscape.
Switch off your brain and attention on pilot light....whatever.
Create nothing of individuality, lest you be misunderstood, the listener is only listening for the general signposts of messaging.
Skating over the surface of understanding nowhere near the thin ice of engagement that might ask for effort.
My tragectory through linguistic communication often bumpy, always textural, somewhat idiosyncratic propelled by a desire to construct edifices of both self interest and entertainment, is and has always been novel.
My Mother calls me Ms Malaprop at times, as she has been witness to my travels and adventures in often missing the target as I was aiming at another, indeed the gardener of note and cook of confection. We talk still about much and such.

Article.
"According to the linguistics professor Jesse Egbert at Northern Arizona University, the use of “journey” (the noun) has nearly doubled in American English since 1990, with the most frequent instances occurring online. Mining a new database of conversational American English he and colleagues are building, Egbert could show exactly how colloquial “journey” has become: One woman in Pennsylvania described her “journey to become a morning person,” while another, in Massachusetts, said she was “on a journey of trying to like fish.”

Egbert was able to further demonstrate how the word itself has undergone a transformative journey — what linguists call “semantic drift.” It wasn’t so long ago that Americans mostly used “journey” to mean a literal trip, whereas now it’s more popular as a metaphor. Egbert demonstrated this by searching the more than one billion words in a database called COCA for the nouns people put before “journey” to clarify what sort they’re on. Between 1990 and 2005, the most common modifier was “return,” followed by words like “ocean,” “train,” “mile,” “night,” “overland,” and “bus.”
But between 2006 and 2019, usage shifted. “Return” remains the most common noun modifier to journey, but now it’s followed closely by “faith,” “cancer,” and “life.” Among the top 25 nouns used to modify “journey” today are: “soul,” “adoption,” and “hair.”

In almost every language, “journey” has become a way to talk abstractly about outcomes, for good reason: According to what linguists call the “primary metaphor theory,” humans learn as babies crawling toward their toys that “‘purpose’ and ‘destination’ coincide,” said Elena Semino, a linguist at Lancaster University who specializes in metaphor. As we become able to accomplish our goals while sitting still (standardized tests! working from home!), ambition and travel diverge. Yet we continue to envision achievement as a matter of forward progress. This is why we say, “‘I know what I want, but I don’t know how to get there,’” Semino explained. “Or ‘I’m at a crossroads.’”

So it’s not surprising, perhaps, that as Americans started seeing good health as a desirable goal, achievable through their own actions and choices — and marketers encouraged these pursuits and commodified them — the words “journey” and “health” became inextricably linked. In 1898, C.W. Post wrote a pamphlet he called “The Road to Wellville,” which he attached to each box of his new product, Grape-Nuts. In 1926, the Postum Cereal Company republished the pamphlet as a small book, now with the subtitle, “A Personally Conducted Journey to the Land of Good Health by the Route of Right Living.”

The language (and business) of self-help so completely saturates culture, “it gets kind of hard to trace where a word started and where it came from,” said Jessica Lamb-Shapiro, author of “Promise Land: My Journey Through America’s Self-Help Culture.” Americans like to put an optimistic, brave spin on suffering, and “journey” seeped in because, Lamb-Shapiro speculated, it’s bland enough to “tackle really difficult things,” yet positive enough to “make them palatable and tolerable.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/10/arts/music/andra-day-cassandra-cherith-review.html
“Journey” had fully entered medical speak by the 2010s. Many cancer patients recoiled from the “battle” language traditionally used by doctors, as well as by friends and relatives. In “Illness as Metaphor,” Susan Sontag had noted back in 1978 that “every physician and every attentive patient is familiar with, if perhaps inured to, this military terminology.” But now, opposition to the notion of disease as an enemy combatant reached a crescendo. To reflexively call an experience of cancer a battle created “winners” and “losers,” where death or long suffering represented a failure — of will, strength, determination, diet, behavior, or outlook — on the part of the patient.

Many patients “detest” the military metaphor, Robert Miller conceded in Oncology Times in 2010. Knowing this, Miller, then a breast cancer oncologist affiliated with Johns Hopkins, said he struggled to find the right words in composing a condolence note to a patient’s spouse. “I welcome suggestions,” he wrote.
“Journey” seemed less judgmental, more neutral. In Britain, the National Health Service had started to almost exclusively use “journey” language in reference to cancer (treatments were “pathways”). Semino, the metaphor expert whose father had died of cancer at a time when patients’ diagnoses were hidden from them, wanted to examine how patients talked about it — and whether that language caused them harm. In a research paper Semino published with colleagues in 2015, she looked at how patients talked about their cancer on forums online and found that they still used “battle” as often as they did “journey,” and that “journey” could be disempowering, as well.

For some people, talking about cancer as a “journey” gave them a sense of control and camaraderie — buddies traveling the same path — but others used the term to convey their exhaustion. Having cancer “is like trying to drive a coach and horses uphill with no back wheels on the coach,” one man wrote. Patients used “journey” to describe just how passive they felt or how reluctant to bear the burden of their disease. Separately, patients have told Semino how much they hate the word “journey,” saying it trivializes their experience, that it’s clichéd.
But it was too late: The metaphor already was everywhere.

In 2014, Anna Wintour was asked which word she would like to banish from the fashion lexicon and she said, “journey.” The following year, Yolanda Foster, the mother of Gigi and Bella Hadid, told People magazine that while she was on her Lyme disease journey, two of her children were afflicted, too. Medical journals and government publications began describing insomnia, the effort to achieve health-care reform, diabetes, and the development of RSV vaccines as a journey. The term “healing journey,” in use since at least the mid-2010s, blew up around 2021. The phrase in news media referenced the experience of cancer, celebrity weight loss, trafficking of Indigenous children, Sean Combs’s creative process, spa vacations, amputation, and better sex.

On the Reddit channel Chronic Illness, one poster eloquently fumed that persistent sickness is not a journey. “It’s endless, pointless and repetitive. There’s no new ground to gain here.” The cultural insistence on illness as a journey, from which a traveler can learn useful, or even life-changing lessons, becomes something to “disassociate from, survive, endure.” It “causes social isolation.”'

My Book Recommendation:
I read this in 1989 when published.
A slim informative volume, that was sorely needed then, as the political freight of dealing with the topic of AIDS in the USA was highly weaponised. A lead on from the previous and cited 'Illness as a Metaphor'.
The other recommendation, for delight in semiotics, would be read anything by Roland Bathes.

(Semiotics is the study of signs, and semantics is the study of their meaning. Belt and braces!)

 

[moginie]

Thank you Pamcake1 for your morning information.

I do try to eradicate the cliches from my speech and typing, but they're pretty heavily ingrained as I appear to absorb them by osmosis.

This is my reading for the week. It's funny, informative and very readable.


Have a great day.

 

[Pamcake1]

Thank you Pamcake1 for your morning information.

I do try to eradicate the cliches from my speech and typing, but they're pretty heavily ingrained as I appear to absorb them by osmosis.

This is my reading for the week. It's funny, informative and very readable.

View attachment 1988556
Have a great day.

Love David Mitchell. Especially in Peep Show. Ooo I have to see if the library will eventually get it in.

 

[moginie]

Love David Mitchell. Especially in Peep Show. Ooo I have to see if the library will eventually get it in.

Public libraries. Couldn't live without them.

 

[Pamcake1]

A bit more serious silliness with the last of the seminars.

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'Playing Nice with Armaments & Incendiaries; judicious usage and preservation of own limbs.'
Today's seminar was about to be cancelled on hearing the faint whine outside the classroom door of a flat faced breed, with comprehension difficulties of anything beyond one syllable.
On investigation of the incipient threat posed to the enjoyment and relishing of the informative pleasures of a scintillating seminar ahead, it was found that said beasty preferred ignorance and juvenilia as a default setting and they were let out to gambol and sniff in the wilderness of their substandard aspirations.
Having dealt with that minnow let's now land the big fish...nay it's a white whale in fact that we are angling for Moby.
Are armaments and incendiaries at all nice one asks to begin. Are they playthings. Do you deserve to have all digits, limbs, eyes and assorted appendages for your entire existence or should anyone else deserve to guard the same.
These meaty questions are the shibboleths of principal importance in defining the criteria of judgement.

Should you be permitted to play with the toys of Darwinian resolution without interference by yourself in your own home.
Scholars of philosophy such as Nietzsche say yes, because to paraphrase, 'there is no God'.
A more mundane answer from the Falwell collective of theology is that, if God saw you they would let you go right ahead because it was all in the overarching plan. That is unless of course you had some other use to them in door knocking for donations but even then who requires arms, fingers or the like for that, a forehead no doubt furrowed and possibly scarred will do.
In summation, if you wish, it is entirely possible to play nicely however unless under outside instruction for military or defence purposes, you will be doing it alone.
And to come back to the earlier question asked from the floor regarding Nietzsche’s musings on meaningful engagement with armaments, I wil quote in full here as he said: "To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering. Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
That is what bait thinks as the fisher thinks, Queequeg.

Inspirational film:


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'Lead & Harness Training; how to walk without choking, how not to get overexcited when seeing the lead.'

Exercise Four.
Do you wait all day, filling in time, sleeping away the hours, till that glorious time when finally, FINALLY THE TIME HAS COME. You see the lead and harness picked up, so excited, so very excited, so so so...running in circles, yelping, jumping up, wriggling with joy that finally you get to go on an adventure.
The possibility of the new places, faces, smells, posts and checking out who's been around and what have they been eating, doing, saying...you just can't wait any longer and then oooooops, the puddle appears and you are in big, big trouble now and it's all turning out bad. And there's the cat just smirking away and you get mad and resentful. It's alright for them they have their own private indoor toilet and they don't give two hoots about anyone except themselves, they don't want to go out and meet anyone, well not on a lead anyway, they're selfish and just want to do their own thing when they want and they just don't care. Now you really want to get the hell out of there and away from that..cat.
You wait by the door quietly seething, finally it opens and you bolt for freedom, its all happening, there's too much happening all at once, the cat resentment, the shame, the excitement, the curiosity, which way, how far, the people pleasing, the full bladder, last nights dinner, tonights dinner but you forget..every time you forget, every bloody time you forget about the lead and choke.

Is it always going to be like this or are you ready to change this dynamic.
You want to change, desperate for change, anything but this endless disappointment with yourself.
Change comes with conscious thoughts and clearing the emotional clutter that is choking you.
It doesn't happen instantly, studies have shown that it takes a minimum of 6 weeks to break habits.
Old or young it is possible, the cat does it and you can too.
Let's start now with understanding the problem with those past ancient masters of control and the cats favourite philosophers, the Stoics.

“Stoicism is about the domestication of emotions, not their elimination.” Nassim Taleb
If we can remain steady, if we can corral and control our emotions, no matter what happens or how much external events may fluctuate, there's no obstacle that can undo us, no triumph that can overinflate us.

'apatheia'. At the centre of Stoic philosophy—that kind of calm equanimity absent of irrationality or severity, free of mental clutter and chaos.
It can be said that apatheia is achieved when you are in control, not your emotions.
It is a state of being that is never not hard to achieve, because each day presents plenty of opportunities to let our emotions run rampant and prompt impulsive, irrational behaviour.
Then we spiral. We lose control. Our problems compound. We drift further and further from apatheia.
And we have to dig a little deeper to ask ourselves what we can do to regain the reins?

Inspirational Film:



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Separation Anxiety in Quooty; there's always next season, how and when to change clubs.

Exercise;
Typical anxiety manifests in excessive concern, worry, and even dread of the actual or anticipated separation from the attachment to a club, a position on the field, those special lucky socks or even the season drawing to a close. Huge barriers are created by mining anxieties because when you look behind there's a huge mullock heap of worries that have been dug up, that prevent you from getting back home as well as even seeing where you thought was home and where these worries have been unearthed from there lies a huge hole, an endless abyss.
This hole that you dug in fretful worrying is way too big to bury all the bones in the world.
The bones of your captain, your enemies, your team mascot, last weeks chicken bones cast in that weird ceremony that they got you to do to get into the finals, the bones of Aunty Penelope and cousin Fred, all the bones at the Northcote butchers that you slaver over, all the bones that you could imagine are kept from you hiding in that place they call the museum, yeh all those really, really big bones will not fill that hole.
You can try to drop them all in one by one but they fall, and fall and fall never reaching the bottomless pit of unearthed worries. That's what separation anxiety does it creates a big hole, a shitload of mullock and all your hopes and dreams and bones go nowhere but into a very big hole.
Does the club care about your bottomless pit of bones, maybe but maybe not.
If you changed clubs would you still be digging that hole.
Probably because you are so used to digging and doing a geographical by changing clubs might, only work for a little while before itched to feel that dirt under your digging paws and started thinking of all those bones, that you must, absolutely must find and throw in the hole.
This is where you must look to the cats for help to break your self defeating anxious habits.
Look at them, they don't have a care in the world, they don't care about teams, scores, ladder positions and to them only mice trophies count and only then, if they can keep them in their owners beds. Look at what they do every day, they sleep, they stretch, they eat, they play and they only dig holes once a day and then, they s**t in it.
Take a leaf out of the cat's 'Feline Maximised Operations Encyclopaedia' next time you worry about anything at all to do with Quooty. If it doesn't have the exact information you are looking for in a given situation, don't worry just make it up as you go along and if anything goes skew-whiffy blame it on the cat.

Inspirational Film;

 

[moginie]

Quite a bit to absorb today Pammy. I'll see how I go when I reread it after some quaffing.

 

[Pamcake1]

This morning woke up with this song on my mind after a difficult day was had,
found myself singing it as I was putting on the kettle for the first coffee.

I remember buying this album in New York in 1988 on cassette for the walkman.
I was desperate for a soundtrack that blocked out the difficulties of maintaining equilibrium there.
It worked and I would take one day off a week, just to hang out at International House doing laundry in the basement or hanging out in the beautiful art deco foyer lounge doing nothing.
So far behind me now in the rearview mirror of memories so near I can touch the sentiments still.

Have a good day out there in the waves RZSS denziens.

About – International House – NYC

www.ihouse-nyc.org

Favourite track on the album:

 

[Pamcake1]

Pretty good program coming up for the Rising Festival:

RISING: Melbourne 01 — 16 June 2024

RISING is a festival of new art, performance and music, in the heart of Naarm/Melbourne.

2024.rising.melbourne

 

[moginie]

And the very best wishes to all RZSS members too.

I have an appointment in the lovely seaside suburb of Glenelg this afternoon. Hopefully my agent can get me some more work.