For the first 50 years of my life, my perfectionist self mistakenly believed it was all about knowing more, getting it right, planning, attempting to prevent bad things from happening, and keeping all of my chicks in a row. It took me this long to discover that the JOURNEY is all that matters. This quote from Gilda Radner sums it all up:

"I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
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Friday, September 4, 2015

I Want the Real Thing or Nothing At All

So often when something is amazing you will find copies of it - knockoffs, generics, fakes.

Sometimes they are acceptable substitutes.


More often than not,  we reject the imitations.


We yearn for something better. 


We just want "the real thing".


I discovered today that this is true of the animal kingdom as well.


This is a cat toy that can be seen on the floor of our house.
I always wondered how people come up with ideas for cat toys.
Do they just stick a bunch of feathers on something to make it alluring to felines?

This morning, as I was headed to the basement to change a load of laundry, I discovered another cat toy on the landing.
It was smaller than the one above.  I didn't remember buying it.


I picked it up and came to the realization this was no "fake".
It was, indeed, the real thing.


I haven't found any evidence of a slaughter inside my house,
so I assume this toy was "made" outside and brought inside
as a toy.


Sorry Maddie.


Please keep these playthings outside.

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