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27

I have no idea.

Whatnot

Have you ever been walking somewhere and seen something very strange, and realised that if you hadn’t been there at that exact time, you never would have seen it?

Yesterday I was walking back to my car in the parking structure downtown, and I look up to see some guy, who had been parked in front of one of the ramps to the roof, back out of his parking space and up the ramp really fast. It was quite wierd. There is no exit from the roof. And he never came back down in the time it took me to get my stuff settled and leave. Who knows.

Fragile little life.

Ponderings

Why do we bury dead things. I’m sure at some point in time there was a logical necessary reason for it… If someone died chances are there was something wrong with them, and leaving the body laying around would probably spread infection. Plus, that’s just nasty. Now, funerals and such give us a chance to say goodbye, to have a more solid sense of closure. But we have many different solutions now; burial, cremation, etc… and that’s even with specific reference to people. Why do we bury animals. I suppose it’s the same sort of closure… or ingrained ritual. They’re the animals we love and we want to do something proper for them, for everything they’ve given us through life. In some cases, people would say that their pet has been more loyal to them than anyone in their life. So it would make sense, then, to give the animal a funeral fit for such a deed.

Spiritual ignorance.

Ponderings

My mother is the least spiritual person I know. In fact, I think maybe she’s the only person I know who I can truly say isn’t spiritual at all. This isn’t in any way a bad thing… It’s just the conclusion I’ve come to based on recent observations. It’s not new information. It’s one of those things… like when someone tells you the meaning of a specific word, and after they tell you, you hear it all over the place, but you never heard it before. The person giving you the meaning didn’t cause everyone to start saying it all the time… It just never occurred to you to listen for it. My mom didn’t just suddenly become nonspiritual. Recent events have caused me to be more aware of it.

Farewell to Branna.

The Zoo

I came home today and she could hardly move. I took her to the vet again. He said that the probable possibility was kidney failure. It was the only explanation that made sense, considering she’d had such a healthy appearance all along, and then went so abruptly downhill. But even that sort of baffled him. Kidney issues rarely show up in such a young ferret. He said he’d not seen a ferret that sick. And that there was nothing he could do. They could keep her, give her IV fluids, force feed her… Do bloodwork to verify what was wrong… But ferrets don’t have that much blood in the first place. And he didn’t think she would come through anyway. She would be miserable through all of it. Only to find out later that we’d have to euthanise her anyway…

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I have no idea.

Fragile little life.

Spiritual ignorance.

Farewell to Branna.

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