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Blue, Emily, Family, Joey, Stuff & Things

December 2024

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  1. Coffee. Freshly roasted, freshly ground, freshly brewed.  The smell of Folgers, in the red, metal can…opened with the green, electric can opener, is a CORE memory for me.    I started drinking coffee when I quit drinking (1/9/00) and am now a snobby addict.
  2. Hearing aids. I’ve had mine for a month. I can hear the frogs out front now…
  3. The green of new grass.
  4. I am perpetually grateful for food that is made for me by others.
  5. The distinct purrs of each of 3 cats.
  6. Everything? Ok…trees.
  7. I was blessed to have a pretty stellar childhood, at least until the divorce when I was 13. Memories of growing up with My Brohim and my revered parents make me happy.
  8. C’mon! That’s a ridiculous question for a Librarian!
  9. The ranch house that I grew up in on a 1/4 acre lot in the middle of Kerman, CA in the 1970s & early 80s.
  10. Coffee.
  11. All winter light celebrations.
  12. Shonda’s homemade chocolate with cinnamon and chile.
  13. The ability to entertain myself.  I don’t know if that’s a Gen X thing, a la “I’ll give you something to do.” or just me, but IMO, when you’re bored, you’re boring. 
  14. Snow on the Sierra Nevada mountains.
  15. I have always adored autumn. I understand other places with 4 actual seasons, but I love when the rain comes to the San Joaquin valley in the fall, turning the golden grass on the hills to their winter green.
  16. My legs that take me everywhere.
  17. That my reinvention of me never ends.
  18. Dang! Another ridiculous question! This time for an Artist!
  19. When I pet Emily, then try to move away, she reaches out her white paw and touches me in hopes that I’ll stay.
  20. My Matt
  21. These Are Days by 10,000 Maniacs
  22. The stories of my family & me. Like how they left baby me with my godparents while they went to Disneyland.
  23. Traditionally, My Brohim and I are in contact with each other on xmas day. Anything more than that is frosting with sprinkles, baby!
  24. I’m supposed to wax poetic about how challenges make you stronger, but I’m not quite feeling that right now TBH.
  25. Every moment laughing with Matt.
  26. Making art with acrylic paint.
  27. My hearing aids are  very small.
  28. A zoom meet with my Art Folks.
  29. Emily Doll Starr
  30. I’m very good at finding things.
  31. NEW YEARS EVE. I enter 2025 absolutely grateful for my little life.

Blue, Emily, Family, Furry Children, Joey

My cats now…

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Currently, I am owned by 3 felines…

The Queen of our home is Emily Doll Star, previously introduced as the partial namesake of this place, who just turned 15 years old in August. 

Code name: BabyGirlKid

15 feline years = 76 human years, so Mama gets what she wants on the regular:

She owns my heart. ❤️

She knows me.

Emily is my Best Friend, my Familiar, and my Muse.  This is her song:

Because she is my sweetheart.

She had been blissfully alone with me after Merry & Pippin moved on, until 2 years ago, when Blue arrived…

But she deserves her own post.

Emily started to warm up towards Blue after a few (6) months, but then Joey arrived and she basically says, “Fuck those kids.” on the regular. 😁

Oh Lawd! He comin’!
Who TF are you, kid?

Joey deserves his own post as well.

Emily, named for:

1) Emily Starr, of the L.M. Montgomery trilogy

2) Sara Crewe’s doll in A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

3) Emily the Strange

…is the best cat who ever owned me.

She sleeps inside the armoire during the day, because she wants to be alone.

She curls up next to me and purrs me to sleep every night. 

She cares gently for my heart.