Greetings on the first day of winter! I love it when we start to have longer days and shorter nights.
Thanks for all your comments and for the compliments and encouragement.
My neighbor lost her fluffy orange cat, El Gato, several nights ago. When he didn’t come home for supper (we live in the woods, so he does go vole-hunting during the day-time), she began to worry. We all looked around for him, but no one found any sign of him. This went on for three days. On the 4th day, a friend came by our house, having just climbed up the hill from the creek below. It turns out that while wandering through the woods, he began to hear an animal calling. When he got close enough and looked up, he found the orange cat about 40 feet up in the crotch of a tree (with no lower branches).
Four days and four nights in a tree, with temperatures well below freezing, this hungry, dehydrated cat was strong and smart enough to call for help when he heard a human in the woods, but he was far too scared to climb down this tall tree that was far too big for anyone to shinny up. We ended up calling Steve, a neighbor who is a woodsman, to come and help us rescue him. “I can’t even count how many cats I’ve got out of trees,” he told her. We waited a couple of hours, with the afternoon sun getting low for him and my neighbor worrying so much that I finally gave her my hula hoop so she could reduce her anxiety. When Steve finally arrived in his electric golf cart, I asked what his plan was. He held up his paintball gun. He was going to fire above the terrorized cat, in an effort to give him an even more immediate scare that would trick him into learning how to get down the tree. It took a while, and this fluffy cat took a couple of hits on his butt to scare him, but he finally did begin to back down the tree.
Watching that whole scenario unfold got me thinking about fear and how it can make creatures—humans included—unable to think of obvious solutions to scary problems. Since we humans are currently facing all kinds of scary problems, this may be relevant to us, too. I found it quite interesting that an even higher dose of fear was what it took to break the spell of fear that was paralyzing this cat from knowing how to save himself. He had to get more terrified than he already had been to solve his problem. He’s a wiser cat now, and I’m still thinking about what I learned from participating in his rescue.
I’ll write later on about what I’m thinking about how “health care reform” is progressing, or not.
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We move to Tennessee this spring, and for my next pregnancy (whenever that may be), I hope to be calling you at The Farm! Thank you for all you do!
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Greetings on the first day of winter! I love it when we start to have longer days and shorter nights…..
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Thanks for all your comments and for the compliments and encouragement.
My neighbor lost her fluffy orange cat, El Gato, several nights ago…..
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My neighbor lost her fluffy orange cat, El Gato, several nights ago…..
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My neighbor lost her fluffy orange cat, El Gato, several nights ago…..
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