Early Spring Haiku
Cherry blossoms and koi pond.
Don’t wanna study.
Tomorrow, 8:00 a.m. sharp I meet my friend from vet school and together we drive up to Boston. I was looking forward to this veterinary convention, but in light of the last several days I’m no longer enthusiastic about it. I feel like I’m leaving too many unresolved issues behind me. Tonight I need to…
Hit by lightning. Again. I feel like the frail off-screen distant relative of some major TV character. You know the one. Every weekly episode has a new throw-away one-liner. “You remember Elaine — Maude’s uncle’s wife’s cousin? She just had her gall bladder removed.” “She just got hit by a car.” “An albatross knocked her…
Receiving the final divorce papers wasn’t as upsetting as I thought it was going to be. Even though I’d initiated the divorce, one does not leave a marriage of over twenty years lightly. I trust the fact that I’m only lightly unsettled by this means that I’ve done the right thing. I hope there’s no…
“Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong as widespread. But the time must come wherein humanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by…
So weâre into the next phase of transition. I think, as a working title, I will call this phase the âIâm flat broke with no more unemployment benefits and totally dependent upon the good will of othersâ stage of my life. I expect this to be neither comfortable nor pretty. There are no large animal…
I get the impression that Mr. Squirrel pays far more regular visits to the balcony than I was aware of. The cats seem to have Mr. Squirrel’s routine down cold though, even though I don’t. It was the Professor who noted yesterday that Mr. Squirrel must be paying a repeat visit, because the ACfH was…