Alex (An Ideal)

Dear Alex,

I keep the household going by the frizzled fumes of my exhausted, yet valiant efforts.

The resources that I have been depending upon are dwindling too rapidly, and I am worried while working to regain business income before these gap fillers run out.

And our new tiger is, of course, a handful, with a loud, strong yowl that keeps going whenever he doesn’t get what he wants.

While his addition to our family has been a type of stabilizing blessing, the frequent mind and emotional pinging has been breaking down my nerves on a daily basis.

Maybe the load is exacerbated by my also having to manage the pack’s dynamics as I work to safely acclimatize them to each other, as well as pressured struggling to save our beloved ranger.

I almost had to make “the call” to let her go this week, but then by a miracle of inspiration tested her desire to eat by syringe feeding.

Fortunately, she has been ravenously responsive, and I am hoping that she’ll regain weight by my frequent hand-feeding her as I encourage, snuggle, and praise her.

It is frightening to have almost missed this opportunity to help prolong her life when she very much wants to keep living.

She has several medical complications that we are treating, so it has been difficult to figure out what care has still been missing.

Meanwhile, our hound’s opportunistic love of food and big-hearted caring has resulted in her generously grooming our ranger after each feeding, which they both enjoy as they warm up by the fire and I fret about possible roughness vs. fragility.

And, as I had hoped that the hound and tiger would get along together, it is a huge win that they tease and play with each other rambunctiously.

However, all of this is being a lot to supervise.

The wolf sides with me regarding the overwhelm, giving an occasional warning growl or bark at times because the tiger loves her fluffy tail and sneaks up on and pounces upon her from many angles in attempts to innovatively engage her.

Wolf is mostly tolerant and supportive by taking part in the social thrum of our new front room dynamics, but she gets a little cranky at times because she is going blind and cannot easily track him.

A Return To Innocence

Home Again

With the addition of our tiger’s 7 month old successor, the house is bustling and lively again.

Of course, I am overwhelmed and overworked in trying to attend to everyone’s introductions and needs.

But the hound and he seem to be as perfectly-matched playmates (supervised, for sure!), building further upon past precious traditions, and our ranger has someone interesting to pique her interest.

Our wolf, per usual, is aloof and tolerant – and keeps alert for when the food is ready!

😀

Altered States

When In Need

A friend helped me yesterday to move items that had been blocking my progress because I could not manage them on my own without causing reinjury.

I hate having to wait for this slow-as-molasses healing.

Those challenge items kept me stuck in disarray for months while I tried to function around them!

So when my friend took her leave and tried to impress upon me that I “had done enough for the day,” I thanked her, closed the door, and dove into the side projects that our progress had exposed.

Of course, today I am suffering in neck pain and discoordination for the overexertion beyond neural and muscular tolerances.

But, I couldn’t let things spiral apart again by leaving various messes.

I needed to capitalize on the sudden clarity and ride its course of momentum.

A Return To Innocence

A Sense of Home

“When I was younger, we moved into a large, two-story home with the original front unit covered in brown shingles, which made it blend well into the environment.

The back portion was a more modern add-on with an additional room below and stairs that led up to an open office and a large bedroom with a beautiful bathroom and jacuzzi tub.

We first got our sassy brown tiger there, and then, our two Somali queen and ranger kittens.

We had small , yappy Papillon teenagers that were loving, competetive, and drove us all crazy – which seemed appropriate for a bustling, thriving family.

And as members of the local 4-H club, we had many varieties of standard to exotic chickens, and our first thriving garden that included young, fruit-bearing trees.

We lived on a large corner sandy lot with a big back yard, a huge elder pine right behind the house, and tall eucalyptus trees draping along the driveway.

There was also a several-nooked, partially enclosed front yard with a simple pond that we put in on the far left corner when looking out from the porch.

Our home’s entrance seemed to beckon and welcome, inviting friendly visitors to come stay and play with us awhile.

I loved seeking out and adding “magical” plants to the landscape, such as soft and fragrant groundcovering chamomile.

Eventually, we even had a family of crows bring their children to visit, and a pair of hawks nested their babies high above us.

It was a time and place for new beginnings as our children entered their teens, and I had so much hope for their having the brightest future.”

Definitions, Myths & Legends

Leontomorphic Gnostic Demiurge

Leontomorphic – resembling or shaped like a lion

https://www.onelook.com/?loc=olthes4&w=leontomorphic

Gnostic

adjective

  1. relating to knowledge, especially esotericmystical knowledge.

noun

  1. an adherent of Gnosticism.

(Oxford)

Demiurge

  1. a being responsible for the creation of the universe.
    • (in Platonic philosophy) the Maker or Creator of the world.
    • (in Gnosticism and other theological systems) a heavenly being, subordinate to the Supreme Being, that is considered to be the controller of the material world and antagonistic to all that is purely spiritual.

(Oxford)

Myths & Legends, Nature

The “Lioness Of God:” Ariel

Archangel Ariel is the Archangel overseeing nature and the natural world and she acts as a liaison between humanity and the elementals, fairies, gnomes, elves, sprites, animals, crystals, minerals, air, and the Divine magic of the earth

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/archangel-ariel-well-known-lioness-god-leona-wallace#:~:text=Archangel%20Ariel%20is%20the%20Archangel,Divine%20magic%20of%20the%20earth.