O.T.... "Here Kitty Kitty Kitty!"

Yvsa

Yvsa

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Our daughter has a couple of the little green Amazon Parrots as well as another I haven't asked what kind it is.
I read a book a couple of years ago about different animals and their reactions with humans,can't recall the name of the book right now and probably won't until we get back to Tulsa.
One of the main stories was about a leopard a man had raised and let come and go as she pleased. One year after she had mated and had kittens there was a huge flood and it threatened her young. She managed to get them to her old home and when the water was down enough for her to take them home but still to high for her to swim acrosss she took one of the kits and climbed into the man's canoe.
He finally figured out that she wanted him to take her across. A few trips later all were safely back in the wild.
The book alos spoke about the intelligence and humor that the green Amazon Parrots have. One of their birds was named Pancho, cvan't recall, but I think Pancho died.
The other parrot saw the folk's dining table one eveningshortly after where a Cornish Hen was trussed andcooked laying on a platter.
The parrot said, "Oh Pancho!!!!"

I finally heard Sweety say to day her famous line, "Here Kitty Kitty Kitty!"
I'm trying to teach Sweety to say, "I talk to much!!!!"
The kids think the parrots squak allday but they don't. Actually they're pretty quiet.:)
 
What a nice story. Like the British vetinarian (sic) who wrote the series of books, All creatures Great and Small" etc.. wonderful.


munk
 
James Herriott: pen name for James Alfred Wight.

Wrote series of novels on pre WWII country veterinarian's adventures using lines from a hymn

All things bright and beautiful
All creatures great and small
All things wise and wonderful

and so on. Well written look at a time long past by today's standards, but which are still able to touch hearts. Sentimental stuff that ought to go over well with those forumites not already familiar with them.

If it weren't for those whose souls still believe in the magic of romance the cantina would never have existed. Those whose souls were shaped by the following, or similar stuff

Lost Horizons by James Hilton

The Glory Road, and
Starship Troopers by Robert Anson Heinlein

King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard

Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

Tom Sawyer, and
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Robert Service
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Rudyard Kipling
Zane Grey

and on and on and on
 
Yeppers. Did you ever read, "Lad of Sunnybrook Farm" when you were a kid? Albert Payson Terhune, but it might be Alfred..he wrote a long series of books popular 60+ years ago on Collies,before Lassie if I'm not mistaken.

Yvsa's story reminds me not only of unexpected presence and heart, ( in the big Cat) but all the great stories where goodness and heart show through.

I like that. I'll confess: I like Reader's Digest stories!!


munk
 
oops, you posted while I was editing.

Tonight perhaps I'll dream of walking The Glory Road while carrying Sun, Moon and Stars.
 
Oh, WTH

My truck's license plate reads ROCNANT ( Rocinante or Roxinate however you want to spell the name of Don Quixote's steed. )
 
Good stuff and thanks. I reread Lost Horizon and the Razor's Edge a couple of years ago, both for about the 10th time.
 
Rusty, your memory has got to be better than mine. I used to read 3 to 5 books a week. Now it's all the same damn book.

I recently saw the movie The Razor's Edge which reminded me of the book and another context of the expression. On the path to enlightenment, some liken it to walking the Razor's edge, but I don't like the idea that a fall on either side makes you doomed. I think Herman Hesse was fond of that idea with his Sidhartha line of books, which ultimately I did not care for.

YOu can almost divide society by those who think a fall from grace is the end and those who survive heartbreak.

These redneck ranchers in eastern montana survive heartbreak and keep going.

munk
 
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king's horses and all the king's men,
Couldn't put Humpty Dumpty together again.

That's because Humpty Dumpty wouldn't let them. And he didn't want to put himself back together either.
 
'pick up your China Doll,
pick up your China Doll,
she's only fractured,
just a little nervous from the fall."

Grateful Dead

I always laughed aloud at the fractured part, I don't know if that was deliberate by them or not, the incongruity of a fracture but being OK too. Probably Robert Hunter's lyrics.

I've got a childrens book of rythmes around here somewhere...a real dark number called: Twas a Man of Double Deed. I'll see if I can't find it.

Like I said; two opposed forces in our world, one convinced of disaster after a fall and one dusting themselves off. Christians in the same denomination interpret the Bible from these points of view.

so old humpty dumpty just didn't want to get back together. It's safe being broken, isn't it?
munk
 
The late Fr. Henri J. M. Nouwen wrote a book called The Life of the Beloved. It compared our lives to the life of Christ and the elements of the eucharist.

TAKEN: set aside for a special purpose.

BLESSED: to a special purpose.

( )

GIVEN: to afford nourishment ( spiritually ) to others.

So if we take a loaf of bread, what is missing above? Being BROKEN to be handed out.

Not only to be broken, but to be broken to a purpose. How can we know what others in pain are going through unless we have been there ourselves. How can we touch those in pain with assurances that the pain will heal without saying "It's going to hurt for longer than you think, but it will heal. I went through it myself and I know."

To live in humbleness and brokeness is to gain the key to healing yourself and others. To unlock hearts and touch lives. To speak not from the head but from the heart and from ( somehow somewhere within ) the soul. To reach the man curled on the floor you have to get down on his level and look him in the eye. You have to go to him where he is at to help him up.

Don't take this too seriously. It's all analogy, and thus flawed. If it makes sense fine, if not, don't worry about it.

I put it as I did because most on this forum have some familiarity with the Christian religion, and I know for most that what I said is not heretical.

To accept brokeness as a gift is beautiful. Alas, I usually don't get it most of the time. As Benjamin Franklin once said: "Alas, should I ever acheive true humility, I would be proud of it."
 
Good post, Rusty, and as Bill always says, thanks.

I need to hear good words sometimes. There are problems in munk's universe.


I think it's damn shame I'm not the literary guy I used to be...I can't even give back my fair share of timely quotes.

My own damn fault for reading drunk.

Ahh..but all those great voices in books, those wonderful hearts who told me I wasn't alone, they're all still in there, still inside.

Thanks again,
munk
 
Munk, the title, The Razor's Edge, is taken from a line found in the Upanishads, I believe, which I can't quote verbatim anymore but it goes something like this: It is said the sharp edge of a razor is hard to cross over. So the path to salvation is hard but the hardest of all is wisdom.

Forgive my failing memory. Years ago when my brain was still functioning I could remember all this stuff.

But, it's not falling off that is bothersome, just getting across.
 
Nowadays it's a race to get up before my mind takes off for lunch. And once it goes out to lunch that's it for the day.
 
Originally posted by Rusty
If it weren't for those whose souls still believe in the magic of romance the cantina would never have existed. Those whose souls were shaped by the following, or similar stuff

Lost Horizons by James Hilton

The Glory Road, and
Starship Troopers by Robert Anson Heinlein

King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard

Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

Tom Sawyer, and
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Robert Service
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Rudyard Kipling
Zane Grey

and on and on and on
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I've read all of them many times, Herriott included, mostly at night in my bed, when my parents slept:D I still like to go back to them from time to time. It brings a lot of good memories. Sometimes I come to believe that all the wisdom of the world is contained in "Winnie the Pooh";) I must be a romantic:)
Add Tolkien to the list for me, OK? That's a great story too.
 
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court
Shane
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
How Green was My Valley
Islands in the Stream
Brothers Karamosov (sic)
Brotherhood of the Grape
Women
anything by Jim Thompson
True Grit and a few others by Charles Portis

munk
 
I loved All Creatures Great And Small and the others that followed:)

I would respectfully add J.R.R. Tolkiens The Lord of the Rings trilogy to these lists of great epic flights of imagination and triumphs over evils--inside and out.

James Clavell's Shogun is still my favorite book--read it when I was in 6th grade, then in high school, and in college. :)
 
Shogun is my favorite by Clavell also. Taipan...KingRat.. though I usually like 'second best' better, preferring The Hobbit to the more successful Rings, White Fang to Call of the Wild by London and Moon is a Harsh Mistress to Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert H.

It occurs to me we could have an entire thread on dog stories alone.
and on science fiction...The Stars My Destination

munk
 
Don't forget these timeless classics...

Cat In the Hat
Where the Wild Things Are
Off To School
 
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