PHOTO: kitten and pink heart//zen and the arc of healing, titanic dog sho 1912, the help//fog&rain

 
 
 

 
  
Sooooo cute!

i have my font on 5 now - i need that to see without difficulty. kind of bored.  we have heavy fog, had it last night as well.  its also raining.  weird weather for january.   reading the book the help, which won awards, and has a lot of quotes and insights, but doubt i'll continue with it.  its depressing.  you can feel the violence and oppression of that time period as you read it.  so its horrifying and the odd improper english also makes it difficult to get through - its written in a strange slang with strange expressions.    can't believe people lived with all that prejudice and fear, with no real end in sight.   the whites are awful, even at their own kids, there is violence - the mother is hitting the baby, and the baby is a year old.  is she nuts or what?    they hit as well as ignore their children and the children get most of their affection and real nurturing from their nanny/maid.   they had a separate bathroom, even in small homes, for people of color and claim people of color carry different diseases.  and this is written about the whites that are college educated sorority women.  wth?  totally bouncing off the walls weird stuff.

started another book about animals on the titanic and a larger dog that survived (most of the dogs that survived were small dogs carried onto lifeboats with their owner).  much better reading.  there was a dog show scheduled the week of the titanic sinking, (never knew that) the event was supposed to happen on the ship.   so aboard were many pricey dogs locked in kennels when not being walked.   someone unlocked and opened the kennels before the ship sank and freed the dogs.   some smaller dogs got into lifeboats with their owners, one couple locked their small dog foufou in their cabin which is idiotic since it was small enough to board a lifeboat with them.  they said people did dumb things like that because no one believed the ship would actually sink.    only 4 of the first class women didn't survive the sinking, and one of them died because she refused to board a life boat without her st. Bernard.   so she died with her dog.    never realized how close the ship was to new york harbor when it went down, i always pictured it in the middle of nowhere -- or maybe it just looks close on the map, but it appears almost to new york, all the way from england.   they also mention that allll ships have a ship's cat that lives on the ship.  the cat's job is to keep out vermin.   the titanic's cat had given birth to four kittens, when the ship docked the mother cat took herself and her four kittens off the ship, which was very odd, since the ship was her home.  not having a cat on board a ship is viewed as bad luck.   
also started a book called zen and the arc of healing, which tells people to go off your meds.  the doctor says meds are emergency only, for one year at the most.  find another way to heal your body.  then he gives you a bunch of alternative cures.    
ate fruit and green beans for dinner with pop corn and a little bit of left over prime rib, with chocolate biscotti and hot black coffee.  no one is here.  will go down to the marina if it stops raining.