Rat's Country: "Working through" something

“Working through” something doesn’t mean your feelings have to change.  It means honestly experiencing the stages of feeling, examining them, and if there doesn’t seem enough internal justification to stay in one particular state of mind, don’t.

Favorite Quotes: Susan's e-mail from Italy

"...keep turning another corner with an open mind and heart.  Life begins at the end of your comfort zone..."

Rat's Country: "I am I plus my surroundings..."

“I am I plus my surroundings and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.”

                                       Jose Ortega Y Gasset, philosopher and essayist (1883-1955)

Rat's Country: How I Feel on Mondays

As inconspicuous as rubber bands around a doorknob.

Rat's Country: I Know a Woman with Tissues

I know a woman with tissues.  She wads tissues into the pockets of her jackets.  Her tissues pad the bottom of her purse.  She keeps tissues on the lid of her toilet, beside her bed.  There are tissues in every room of her house.

Actually, she has more tissues than anyone I know.

Rat's Country: Another Parable about Going Down a Road

We know this woman who goes down the road with a monkey on her back, a toad on her head, and leading an ass.  As she walks, she wails, "Look at me.  I have a monkey on my back.  I have a toad on my head.  I have to lead an ass."

She thinks we care, but we don't.

Rat's Country: The party's over...

The party's over.  Move everything forward with a mental janitor's broom:  the paper cups, dirt, and streamers.