Passion

I have been consumed by my passion, as evidenced by my failure to blog, for several months.  I am a volunteer for Animal Friends Connection Humane Society.  I started out simply cleaning cages at Petco for those kitties on display for adoption.  I  have expanded into foster care of kittens, primarily, and now have my own "Cat House" where I have raised and nurtured and socialized about 25 kitties so far.  I still have 6, but all the rest have found wonderful "purrmanent" homes. My most recent girls, Faith, Hope and Joy will be spayed and ready for adoption after October 29. My juvenile, Dori, who was a captured feral and along with her brothers and sisters have been in foster care for socialization training with both other cats and people, is also progressing.  She went to Petco with the other girls on Saturday for showing and did very well.  She came home and has continued to warm up to me.  She is really good with the smaller girls.  Her favorite playmate, Mouth, got adopted and she misses him.  I have only one boy at this time, Tabito.  He is the lucky male in the house full of girls, but alas alack, he was neutered long ago.  He is very loving and fond of all his little playmates.  He protects Miss Sweety who after having a rough start, is growing nicely and is the most beautiful medium length smoky haired girl.  She is a lap junkie, and monopolizes my lap whenever she can.
I will tell my brief tales of the others and attach photos as I go.
Hopefully I can be more consistent in my posting. 
Here is a photo of Dori with Faith on the table at the "Cat House"  

Peeve:Vituperative rants against people

It is wonderful to be in a land where we all have different opinions and views about issues and are not summarily taken to the square and shot.  However, there are those who do not simply take issue with ideas and opinions that differ from their own, but who attack the character and intellignce of the person who has those differing ideas and opinions.  That is a major peeve for me. I call it verbal shooting, and it saddens me.
 But, as Tom Lehrer used to say: " there are some people who are intolerant of others and I hate people like that!"  :-)  On this bright Easter Sunday,  I have returned to my passion
discussed below, and regained my sense of humor. 

Passion: Spring!

I am passionalte about spring weather and all the beautiful blooms in my yard.  Camillias, wisteria, lilacs and Calla lilies are all in bloom.  I can enjoy walks with Mika dog and luncheons on the patio. Today is a gorgeous Easter Sunday!  I hope everyone that I love is as joyous as I am today! 
Yesterday I watched a goshawk stand and then bathe in my birdbath and that was awesome. 

Peeves

Big government, big debt, and the progressives' pomposity.

Passions:

"All creatures great and small, all things wild and wonderful," and my avocation  in animal husbandry.

Peeves

Because I can hardly tolerate "woe is me, I may as well curl up and stop living", I will probably never return to the practice of clinical psychology. I always want to turn on the old Eagles' song,Get Over It, or do as Bob Newhart did when playing a psychiatrist, just respond to every complaint with "Stop it!"

It is also a peeve when people blame others for the negative outcomes of their very own decisions!

Last but not least, penny wise but pound foolish.  Thrifty is good: miserly not so much.

Passion

Thomas Sowell, Hoover Institute Think Tank economist.  Even his "Random Thoughts" are more profound and politically and economically astute than any of our current politicians and their advisers. I particularly liked his take on college commencement orators. If I heard that John Stossel was going to speak at my daughter and grand daughter's commencement in May, I would be there.  I have decided to not go, and to enjoy him via cable, without the hassle of airports, long drives and tedious ceremonies..these latter constituting major peeves. I would also go if Thomas Sowell was speaking, of course!