Sometime during the time we lived in Cle Elum from 1961 to 1972, I rescued and raised a little field mouse named Skippy. She looked almost exactly like the one you see above next to the headline, but she was much smaller at first and significantly darker. I called her Skippy because she […]
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Bursties was aptly named, but I didn’t know it when I named her. I named her Bursties because she popped — appeared to burst — all over the place as a kitten, as healthy, happy kittens always do. But she lived up to her name later on, too, despite settling down into a more
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For the next several posts, I’m going to be reminscing about some of my favorite animal-related memories of all time. Dreyfuss Leopard leapt into my thoughts tonight When I volunteered at Cougar Mountain Sanctuary (CMS) in the late 1970’s, there were some big cats there that I was able to take for walks,
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I have a new mantra: “I don’t mind.” I developed it as a result of reading two books by Niebauer and by remembering J. Krishnamurti’s comment, “I don’t mind what happens.” The new mantra means one of two things to me “I don’t allow my mind (left brain) to fret needlessly.”
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I had a DeForest Kelley dream last night, the first in a very long time. It was wonderful. I got to hang out with some of his friends. I don’t recall a lot of details, but several of his friends were at my place looking over my Kelley archives, and they asked if I
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It’s wintertime, so I’m on a reading jag. The most recent, totally fascinating title I’ve read is THE NO SELF, NO PROBLEM WORKBOOK by Chris Niebauer. At the beginning of the book, the author assures the reader that it isn’t necessary to have read his book, No Self, No Problem before using this workbook.
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I’m on a spaghetti kick right now, which is weird. I’m not a big fan of tomato sauce or Italian food. But my taste buds are demanding spaghetti right now! And I have heard it’s important to pay attention to odd cravings like this. The brand I buy at Winco is made
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There are three Artificial Intelligence questions/concerns Jeremy Walker posed on Facebook: 1.) AI learns from the open source web. A lot of data is innacurate and downright misinformation. This leads to automating discrimination. AI advocates have said they want to continue to diversify their coding staff to address these harms, but once you let it
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GRRR!! Lisa’s and my tax prep didn’t get finished yesterday. The AARP tax preparers at the main library in Puyallup ran out of appointment slots within minutes of opening. So we got the pre-prep paperword, filled it out, and will need to return next Friday to keep the appointments they made for us. Uncle Sam
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