To quote Cyndi: I just love love you and love your writing. makes me think.........
of how I objectified the pets we had in our family, how I grew up in a family intolerant or suspicious of animals - and I guess of people who were "other". How Mimi, Machete and Basin have introduced me to dogs as beings, as subjects, not objects. For that, I am grateful. And I love how your writing connects a specific realization to larger bigger things about myself and how I live.
so good, thank you. really struggling with this right now because the mice are taking over my log cabin and i dont want to live with them. using peppermint, dryer sheets, all the cabin hacks to prevent. but they want the cats food. the cat is an old dude, one of many pets/plants my daughter left behind when she went to college. she said he would manage the mice. i caved. (the dilema of domesticated animals in the woods.)
also its so real that moms being automatic caretakers for every living thing our children adopt, especially noticable when the kid leaves home. any mom who stops caring for or tries to relocate the animal herd, sends a non loving message to her child who is out there trying to learn how to brave the big world. so we give years of our lives to our kids adoptees, after the kid is gone. “ahhh, so this too” is the only mantra that helps me with this dilema, except when the dog chases the cat, then i actually yell.
when we also had rabbits, i read a poem something like:
parents love the children
children love the rodents
the rodents love nobody
clever rodents
so i feel absolutely terrible for killing mice. next step is finding all their secret holes, wishing them away, getting more cats? they slip through quarter inch slots. or just realy learn to accept them…so this too?
prob some interweb rule that im not supposed to write this much on somebody’s newsletter. lmk. just love love you and your writing. makes me think. xo
To quote Cyndi: I just love love you and love your writing. makes me think.........
of how I objectified the pets we had in our family, how I grew up in a family intolerant or suspicious of animals - and I guess of people who were "other". How Mimi, Machete and Basin have introduced me to dogs as beings, as subjects, not objects. For that, I am grateful. And I love how your writing connects a specific realization to larger bigger things about myself and how I live.
so good, thank you. really struggling with this right now because the mice are taking over my log cabin and i dont want to live with them. using peppermint, dryer sheets, all the cabin hacks to prevent. but they want the cats food. the cat is an old dude, one of many pets/plants my daughter left behind when she went to college. she said he would manage the mice. i caved. (the dilema of domesticated animals in the woods.)
also its so real that moms being automatic caretakers for every living thing our children adopt, especially noticable when the kid leaves home. any mom who stops caring for or tries to relocate the animal herd, sends a non loving message to her child who is out there trying to learn how to brave the big world. so we give years of our lives to our kids adoptees, after the kid is gone. “ahhh, so this too” is the only mantra that helps me with this dilema, except when the dog chases the cat, then i actually yell.
when we also had rabbits, i read a poem something like:
parents love the children
children love the rodents
the rodents love nobody
clever rodents
so i feel absolutely terrible for killing mice. next step is finding all their secret holes, wishing them away, getting more cats? they slip through quarter inch slots. or just realy learn to accept them…so this too?
prob some interweb rule that im not supposed to write this much on somebody’s newsletter. lmk. just love love you and your writing. makes me think. xo