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Animals
My cat Ishtar knows kung-fu. I have watched her perform spinning backflip kicks against me in the middle of the night to initiate play. We then get into these sumo wrestling matches. This interaction with Ishtar makes me think about how we connect with animals. Humans have a special talent for empathy, to feel and touch the experience of other life. How would it change society if humanity embraced the value of empathy as much as cash?
Note
I removed roughly one page of material here… Ishtar couldn’t make out a single word I was writing…
It’s all too easy for us to get lost within our words. Ishtar reminds me living is never a matter of words.
Paths
When possible, Ishtar and I siesta under the sun. When required, we hunt for our needs. When bored, we kick out to stir up the wonder of the world.
Life is not about complexities or simplicity.
Living instead flows to the beat of needs and feelings.
And empathy?
Living to feelings includes, coming to harmony within a surrounding emotional ocean.
Ishtar is a cat
A very rare cat
Who knows physics.
To the world
The ever crazy world
Ishtar is merely a blur.
However,
Ishtar never moves
Ishtar never flinches
Ishtar knows relativity
It’s all a matter of sitting
The world dancing in a blur.
It is easy
to play all day
It is easy
to be as velcro
to a curtain
or even
the occasional human.
All it takes is the simple use
of claws and physics
A wise cat
only needs to sit
letting the world
spin around the paws.
Yes
Ishtar is a cat
A very rare cat
who knows physics
in space & time
is merely a matter of
paws and claws
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