finding gratitude through grieving

[aethyrflux]

Bless their little hearts, our pets constantly re-teach us the pain lessons of letting go of those we love... hopefully reminding us to cherish our loved ones every moment as if it were our first and possibly last

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[jewelstar93]

Cool site. I was thinking of Katzen just the other day. She looks great.

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[aethyrflux]

hiya!
i don't get online much these days... much work & school.
it's great to 'hear' from you!
i like your new icon -- you look great, too!
mmmmm... i must go work on a project for my history class about the white man's burden

[00goddess]

I'm sorry about your kitty :( (hugs)

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[aethyrflux]

thanks... you know, somehow i knew that you would be able to sympathize.

I'm sorry about your friend

[heatherthegreat]

I wish I could give you a hug. But I will when I see you again. I hope your melancholy disappates soon too. I miss you Shanta!

Many Hugs,
A birthed Heather
(today is my birthday!)

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[aethyrflux]

muchas gracias!

and if you are missing me, you should definitely improve your aim...

feliz navidad, amiga!

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[heatherthegreat]

I'll be sure to throw harder next time... force in lieu of aim right?? I don't think I'll be at the upcoming games night (too much homework) but hopefully I'll see ya around!

Heather

[azaz_al]

(small prayer to Lady Bast asking her to watch over such a good kitty)

I'm re-reading "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" right now.

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[aethyrflux]

thank you for being a compassionate being.

` ` As Dick wrote of in his story "Human Is" (1955), in his "Afterthoughts by the Author" to the "Best of Philip K. Dick" (1977) story collection, "I have not really changed my view since I wrote this story, back in the fifties. It's not what you look like, or what planet you were born on. It's how kind you are." ' '

Sutin, Lawrence. "Preface: On the Exegesis of Philip K. Dick." _In Pursuit of Valis: Selections from the Exegesis._ Ed. Lawrence Sutin. Novato, Ca & Lancaster, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1991. xii.

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[aethyrflux]

It's not what you look like, or what planet you were born on. It's
how kind you are. The quality of kindness, to me, distinguishes us from
rocks and sticks and metal, and will forever, whatever shape we
take, wherever we go, whatever we become.

[aethyrflux]

Of the story, "Human Is" Phil Dick had this to say:

To me, this story states my early conclusions as to what is human. I have not really changed my view since I wrote this story, back in the Fifties. It's not what you look like, or what planet you were born on. It's how kind you are. The quality of kindness, to me, distinguishes us from rocks and sticks and metal, and will forever, whatever shape we take, wherever we go, whatever we become. For me, "Human Is" is my credo. May it be yours. {Levack 99}

http://www.philipkdickfans.com/mirror/websites/pkdweb/short_stories/Human%20Is.htm

[contentlove]

Sorry about your cat, S. But what a miracle life he had!

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[aethyrflux]

Yes, and further miracles are found in that this time, i am fully participating in rewriting the cycle of death, rebirth, and preservation. Church was the name of the last black cat companion i was familiar with, before Tiny. Church's passing into the western lands was the precipitating event to an apocalyptic confrontation with my own shadow. This conflict was personified through my relationship with a succubus-like entity that had taken the form of my ex-lover who had shot herself, and haunted my dreams through sleep paralysis and night terrors in a recurrent and ever-developing narrative for six years. I have enjoyed the work of Sirley Marques Bonham, and other pioneers of conscious dreaming, in recovery from these experiences. The scene in "Schopenhauer in Hell" where Lucifera offers Nietzsche the contract always had an eerily reminiscent quality to these events in my own life. Yet, it was as if i were in the audience watching the events unfold in my life back then; and now, i am composing the story, myself (with a little

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[buddhalotus]

I had nightmares for four months every night after Travis and I went our separate ways....you know why....I still have them every once and a while as you have witnessed. But now as you have also told me....I laugh in my sleep....I'm happy and peaceful. I wish you many nights or days of peace and sleeping laughter. I found this sight,Freaky dreams. It seems interesting. I have always enjoyed trying to understand myself more fully by listening to my sub conscience.

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[contentlove]

Here is Sirley Marques Bonham. I just wanted to thank you for enjoying my work . In this time of spam-email, people are shying away from writing. So, it was good to read you have visited, and that it was worth the reading.

V/R

Sirley