I think you should call imaginary kitty Pumpkin Head McMuffinMuffin, and when you feel calling him something else, do so.

It is possible for cats to revert from their diabetic state to a normal level of insulin and regular glucoseyness. We think Loaf may be in transition as his behaviour is becoming more and more bonkers.

Loaf has always been a little bit of a doofus, he’s not a bright boy (but he is *very* pretty – especially in his new pink collar). Recently even his normal doofiness has been surpassed by his new pastime. Loaf has been systematically removing all the holly in the basket by the fire and dumping it on the floor. You put it back in, he pulls it back out. We have given up fighting it and just watch him do it. So there is holly and crap all over the living room floor and this has to be tolerated alongside having your hair licked at 06.50am to remind you that it’s time to give him his shot.

who needs kids eh?

At college, in the dorm rooms, obviously we weren’t allowed to have cats. So . . I systematically made my list of storefronts in town where there was a shop cat — one bookstore, one new-agey store, and of course a locally-owned petstore. They were MY CATS, dammit, and I visited them often. Now I have my own cat, but I still ‘borrow’ (in my mind) the neighborhood cats/kittens. Black Kitten is like four years old, by now, but to me he (or she?) will always be a kitten. :) Rock on!!

Well, I’ll try to maybe reframe the epiphanies thing tomorrow since this has been coming up a lot recently.

But yeah, if you’re not getting realizations about yourself and your life, that’s probably a sign that your practice isn’t challenging you enough.

Time to bump up to the next level, probably. Because you really have to be making it hard.

Really, the only way to not get realizations that I can think of (as long as you’re challenging yourself) could be either not interacting with the understandings that do come up or thinking of epiphanies only in terms of things that Change Your Life In Huge Ways.

Though I’m pretty sure that most of my epiphanies have happened despite my not interacting with realizations, so maybe that’s not even a thing.

Anyway.

If it takes some pressure off, you don’t have to think of it as epiphanies. You can think of it as bits of useful information that will come together to generate epiphanies.

But if you’re not getting those, it’s definitely a sign that your brain is getting it. Yay, you.

Which means: now it’s time to make the practice a lot harder. :)

You can totally share any new patterns. That would be brilliant.

I mean, one of the *points* of Shiva Nata is that it trains your brain to find patterns and generate new ones, so we’re always trying to find new patterns and document them.

It’s liquid math! That’s what it’s for!

And no, the cat is grey. But with a head that looks eerily like a pumpkin. A pumpkin head. As opposed to a pumpkin cat.

@claire – I looked it up on Wikipedia! Man, life before internet was weird.

In case you didn’t know, “having kittens” is an idiom which means to get overly upset or worried about something.

http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/having+kittens

Cheers!

@havi I can describe the West Wing ep it was in if you like. Just hit me up on twitter.

I’ve been thinking a lot about naps today. I received an electric blanket as a holiday gift, and it’s a wonderfully cozy thing. However, the elder of my two cats loves it even more than I do. He thinks it’s the nicest present anyone ever gave him.

Oh, and Temima Fruchter’s Erev is a gorgeously gobsmacking piece of writing. Thank you so much for sharing that!
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Also, now I want a pumpkin muffin.
Thanks a lot.
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Pumpkin Head McMuffin Muffin seems quite dignified in comparison.
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