Badger's Moon

Origin of the Aurora Borealis Tookla’s magnificent head came up with a start. What was that? Another sound? Ears forward, Tookla’s ice-blue eyes stared out from the doorway of his plywood doghouse. Getting up slowly he stretched luxuriously and moved carefully from the warmth of his hay filled house into the bitter chill of his fenced outdoor run. Standing still, Tookla alertly scanned the February afternoon landscape outside his run. Nothing. How many times now had he expectantly searched the surrounding area only to be disappointed? Walking to the end of his run, Tookla sat slowly down and heaved a great sigh. Sparkles of frost chased by shivery wintry blasts twirled through the air and landed on his thick warm coat. Half closing his eyes, Tookla began to think back to the old days, the good days. “It wasn’t always like this,” he thought to himself. “I used to go with my master and the team always. But no more. Not for a long time. My own son now has my place at the front of th...

Posted in Quotes by badger “O Great goddess, Bast, Soul of Isis, Heart of the Sun-hear my call. Aid thy servant in reaching the source of all things, Guide thy servant’s steps on the true path Answer your physical manifestation’s soul’s desire for Thou. Blessed be Bast, Who gathers her children into life everlasting. Blessed be Bast, The Beloved of Bast has gone to the Horizon, Your physical manifestation lives now only in the sunset. May her ka endure and her shadow seek the light. The power of Bast protects her, Shut en Bast sau.”

Posted in Quotes by badger Fully welcome this day with open arms, with a grateful heart, and you will find it to be a good and productive day. Welcome the challenges as being a necessary part of life, and they will strengthen rather than stop you. Welcome the opinions and perspectives of others, especially when they differ from yours. For by so doing you’ll enable your own perspective will grow more valuable. Accept what is, and you will increase your ability to do, create or have whatever you wish. Live as though there is the possibility for good in every circumstance, and you’ll discover that it is there indeed. Relish the cold, dark days just as enthusiastically as the bright, warm ones. Seek to extract just as much positive value from the defeats and mistakes as from the victories and successes. The majesty of the sunrise would not occur without the darkness of the night. Effort would be impossible without rest, and likewise rest without effort. Seeking only a select p...

Posted in Quotes by badger “Learn to say, [@#$%]! to the world once in a while. You have every right to. Just stop thinking, worrying, looking over your shoulder, wondering, doubting, fearing, hurting, hoping for some easy way out, struggling, gasping, confusing, itching, scratching, mumbling, bumbling, grumbling, humbling, stumbling, rumbling, rambling, gambling, tumbling, scumbling, scrambling, hitching, hatching, bitching, moaning, groaning, honing, boning, horse-shitting, hair- splitting, nit-picking, piss-trickling, nose-sticking, ass-gouging, eyeball-poking, finger-pointing, alleyway-sneaking, long waiting, small stepping, evil-eyeing, back-scratching, searching, perching, besmirching, grinding grinding grinding away at yourself. Stop it and just DO. Don’t worry about cool. Make your own uncool. Make your own, your own world.” – Sol LeWitt to Eva Hess

“It is a great ability to be able to conceal one’s ability.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680); French author & moralist.

Posted in Pets , memorials by badger North of Rainbow Bridge by MakWa4me The time comes. A Siberian Husky lifts up its head. There is an untested adventure beyond. Time to go. Across the Rainbow Bridge is a place for all dogs. A river runs wide and shallow with tennis balls that fly with their own wings; that is the place for a Labrador or Golden to await its master’s arrival. The Siberian is not content here. Northward is its trail. There are soft pastures for Aussies and Border Collies, with sheep and geese to pen. Agility equipment grows like trees amid Frisbees and flyball. But the North continues its sure wild call, and the Siberian’s journey continues. Now the air is colder. Now the moon is always full. Now the light is silver and it breaks and shimmers on fields of bright snow Now there are no roads, no walls, no pens, just endless space to run. This is where Siberians gather, North of the Rainbow Bridge . They wait in this beautiful place, happy, but n...

I refuse to think of them as chin hairs. I think of them as stray eyebrows. Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse. A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who never owned a car. Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry and you cry with your girlfriends. My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being, hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint. Old age ain’t no place for sissies. A man’s got to do what a man’s got to do. A woman must do what he can’t. The phrase “working mother” is redundant. Every time I close the door on reality, it comes in through the windows. Whatever women must do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult. Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart. I try to take one day at a time—but sometimes several days attack me at once. If you can’t be a good example—then y...