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D31: Follow the River, and the Cat

 

 

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Thu, Feb 01 12:00 AM

D31: Follow the River, and the Cat

 A soft blanket of powdery snow covers  my world outside. The town is quiet. Birds at my feeders sing their winter songs and pull silly bird antics. I go out to walk in the snow--I love the sound--I follow the prints of an orange and white cat I see sulking around my feeders. Remember Dennis the menace? Some cartoons were nothing but small boy footprints, from football to tree to the candy store to a friends house...the cat prints are like that. Under a pine, across a yard, around a bush alongside frantic bird tracks, through a crack in a wooden fence, down a hill where they stop at several apt doors, circling around more bird tracks, chasing a rabbit...what a day that cat has! I finally trace him, I think, to an empty house for sale.  In the snow he walked to the front door, sat, then walked to the back, sat some more. Then walked away. I think they left this handsome boy. I hate that. Outdoor cats live at most two years, and have a rough go of it, never mind the unwanted litters and the fights and and.. Well. I already took in one beauty who was dumped. This guy I'll feed until we're friends and then I'll take him an hour away, to the no-kill shelter. Meanwhile I wish him a warm place to sleep in this cold. So! Today I solved the cat mystery. I walked in this fabulous snow, I got some exercise! I've done a lot of work the past three weeks taking action on things. Day 31  brings me, for the first time since hurricane Katrina, a feeling of contented peace. It's nice. To feel this good. Whatdayaknow. Coach is right. When I address the present so I know I'm doing all I can to improve my life today, and I envision a future, so I feel hope and enthusiasm, when I share these things with a positive, wonderful community, I come to feel serene, and happy. Not because everything is fantastic. It's not. (yet). I just feel GREAT.  

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meandering footprints

That is a wonderful image you conjure up of the meandering footsteps of your new cat friend.

 

You also capture the beauty of the snow covered neighborhood so well with your words. 

 

As a self described expert of all things cartoon, I have to know if you meant the "Family Circus" cartoons instead of Dennis the Menace. At least that was the cartoon series that first popped into my mind (which happens to be full of cartoons on a 24 hour basis anyways!)

 

EricShelby-1170379272745668 

Dennis

hey this is fun! But nope, I'm just pretty darn sure it was Dennis. I won't try to calculate how long ago this would have been. But they repeated the theme many times, I believe.

Phone ringing (playing, actually)...

Dennis goes about town

There's little footprints, in a small town, going from here to there. I'll ask someone OLD if they remember, and get back to you. But I like this one too. Kids are reliably kids, aren't they?!

Appreciate that

Forgot to say thanks, for the nice remark on the blog. That always feels good. Tell me are you doing your cartoons commercially or what's the program for your talent, these days? Maybe blog it for people? Or...put it on your profile? If it's related to your Tools vision of a future...

I stand corrected!

WB, I stand corrected. I had remembered the recurring theme in Family Circus, which appeared countless times (and has been parodied countless times as well - just stumbled across this one which is thematically attractive to someone with my bend towards comic-book heroism ;)  )

 

EricShelby-1170463381358530 

The Thing! I LOVE the thing!

How hilarious to see Ben The Thing down there.  I just saw the movie The Fantastic Four about a month ago. Ben was my hero, when I was a kid. I'd forgotten he had the option to turn his back on his friends and Saving The World in order to recover his normal body. I think Family Circus is sweet. Whereas Dennis was always stirring up trouble.