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• 31/08/2008 @ 02:29 inspire said

  

  A beautiful brick Jomo ... I love the cat too. We used to have a little black cat who jumped into my lap any time he had a chance and would sit there and keep your legs warm and cozy. Anyway, here I am getting off track.
  Jomo, you have a special way of making me feel less of an outsider in my world. I'm not sure that makes sense in the way I mean it ... but as you share your thoughts and feelings, I can relate to a lot (surely in different ways) and it makes me feel more normal, more accepted, more calm with myself. I appreciate that more than most things.
  Lots of love (and hoping you are well) ... Inspire xoxo

• 31/08/2008 @ 03:07 Mebenji said

  

  :) Thanks so muchly, Friend-Jomo - & well, yes I do like it, but just in case you do decide to delete it for some other reason, I am now going to copy it and keep it on my computer! I might even fix that one tiny typo - not as a criticism, but just because I can. Okay? ((((Hugs))) Jomo-mematey, you've summed up how I'm feeling so well, you might've been in my head (for a quiet holiday?) instead of your own. That's empathy. & that you've used your own little black cat picture you'd used in a previous avatar is very sweet...feel so strongly connected to you, Jomo!

  Hello Inspire, none of us are all so different really - feeling an outsider, separate from everyone else begins to feel rather normal; so many do it! I think it is normal because we do have separate bodies, separate minds, individual ways of telling our own story to ourselves, the images, metaphors/analogies (I'll figure out which is which one day.) is all personal to ourselves. Sometimes we use similar words or ideas, but with a different meaning, our own slant in mind, which might not be easy or convenient to tell to someone else (that's why we use such metaphors/analogies in the first place). This is why I like Jomo's poem here so much - she has taken some things I've said, quoted them back to me, added to them; some of these lines, I didn't actually say, but felt & Jomo has picked up those feelings so clearly...more clearly than I have, hence one question, Jomo: "My poor heart defeating" ? - or is this to fit the rhyme?

  Thank you,

  -Mebenji

• 31/08/2008 @ 03:32 Jomo said

  

  "No noise of eating, my poor heart defeating" was referring to DrAC - and actually, I think prolly that "coom" IS a word - not quite the same as "cool" but a word - Mebenji will give a prize to the best meaning of the word "coom".

  Ahem.

  I do love this cat, and this pic was what I thought of when I read your words...

  
  Inspire - glad you liked it!

  I think that typos are essential to all writers, because it puts them in their place, pronto.

  Am not in your head Benj, can hardly sit still in mine!

  Lots love, and laughs -
  Jo
  XXX

• 31/08/2008 @ 13:02 harmony said

  

  Jomo, what a little beauty! And the words are perfect. Coom clearly means feline cool - which is way beyond the cool humans are capable of.

• 31/08/2008 @ 22:17 Overseas said

  

  Cats. I love them so much, and this one has such a beautiful head. They are so graceful.

• 31/08/2008 @ 23:16 Jomo said

  

  There. Good on ya, Harmony. Mebenji will send you the prize for the best meaning of Coom - feline cool.

  I love cats too, OS - I am allowed to keep one here, but the space is so small, I feel that it would not be good for a cat - and I go in and out of hospital, and the poor cat would have to be boarded out - so I don't keep a cat. I would love to have a cat to cuddled up to and listen to the purr...

• 01/09/2008 @ 04:32 harmony said

  

  My last cat, which I had for 14 years, was called Harmony. WOuldn't have another. I grieved more for that cat than after the death of some relatives.

• 01/09/2008 @ 05:29 Jomo said

  

  Well, obviously. Most cats are a great deal nicer than a lot of my relatives!

  Though I am sorry that you refused to have another. There is a kitten out there with you engraved in its heart - you only need each other to complete yourselves.

  Harmony-the-cat would have been sorry to see you catless. And would have, cat-like, moved on through life, I think, had she/he lost you. Harmony the person, ought, in my humble opinion, consider the owning of catness again. Nothing like it for peaceful serenity - and also if you go to a refuge, you save the life of a moggy...

  Yours in deep miaows -
  Jo XXXXX
  [who is unable to keep a cat, just now... sob! Wah!]