Monday update

One of the kittens died overnight. I don't know what happened. She was right by her food dish. She had exhibited no signs of illness or listlessness.

I used to get very distraught about kittens dying. I think, as I have probably blogged before, that dogs and cats deserve a better shot at life than a lot of humans do.

Now I tend to view life and death as a sort of a temporary coming followed by a temporary going. I'm undecided about reincarnation, but I accept the notion, as Tich Nhat Hanh writes, that living things are like waves that appear in the ocean. Yes, we have a certain illusion of separateness and individuality, but in reality, we're all partt of the same ocean and can't exist apart from it.

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Not much else to report since Friday. The weekend was uneventful - felt well enough to mow the front yard Sunday morning, and spent most of the rest of the time at the Red Cup or at Suzanne's.

Physically, I am back at almost full strength and worked all day yesterday.

I still have a little muscle soreness, and I had a sudden dizzy spell yesterday. Several people saw it, and I guess I was wobbling pretty badly.

But I'm still inching my way back to normalcy.

I lost some weight over the summer, mostly due to cutting a lot of fast food out of my diet, and some old clothes fit again. I wore a shirt to work yesterday that's probably twenty years old.

One thing I will say about my '80s-'90s fascination with fashion: I rarely bought crap, and always chose quality over flashiness. So I have lots of stuff hanging in the closet today that, while no longer stylish, looks about like it did when I bought it.