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simplify. connect. love. dazed by the beauty of this planet. continually learning. growing. breathing.
i care for exotic cats, nursing life & health back into their abused, restless souls. i labor with much passion, much compassion. my life is dedicated to the innocent, pure animals of this planet, including humans with such qualities. this moment is all i have.

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this is Magic. not one of our sweetest rescued cats, but he’s stolen my heart! i sat down for about 30 minutes in front of his enclosure and he just plopped down where i was and let me sit with him. he’ll even let me touch his nose, on occasion (and i still have all of my fingers!). what a lover.
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he’s so sneeky! so much respect for these animals, i wish people didn’t find them pleasing as pets :(
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one of my favorite cats ever.
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today was a whirlwind fluctuating between high, highs and low, lows. my heart isn’t strong enough for this shit at times.
i thought on my drive to work this morning, how awful it would be to see a kitten trying to cross the road and terrible i’d feel hitting it with my jeep which i hate, in a society which i hate living, and how i’d give it all up for that kitten. it’s kitten season after all since no one knows how to take a cat to the vet to spay her for her own health and the health of the species… and then i saw a dead kitten in front of the ymca, dead. someone had already lived that terrifying moment in my head, and kept driving, probably not terrifying to him/her whatsoever. i worried all morning, what if he/she had been alive? i knew little kitty wasn’t. it was the most heartbreaking moment of my day, one of the most heartbreaking moments in my life.
got to work, my boss was chipper which is always a shifty sign… he asked me to go on a rescue tomorrow for 7 more cats- which i agreed to but what caught me off guard is how he approached it, recalling that he HAD promised i could go next rescue, and it WAS the next rescue… he never remembers anything, how the hell did he remember this? either way, i’m going on my first one tomorrow. been there over a year, and now i get to experience what i give tours to the public about, first hand. cool i guess, i’m really nervous. it’s a federal seizure so the guy we’re taking the cats from has *whispers* NO IDEA and supposedly won’t be there to fight us. the authorities will be there with guns, too… it will be scary.
caught in drama-central and i refuse to play any part. i think it’s killing the people (co-workers) involved since i won’t be their translator between two parties. good thing i don’t give a fuck and just kiss tigers on the nose instead.
four pileated woodpeckers have shown themselves to me over the past week.
what i thought was a peculiar ghost isolation hovering and shimmering over the road, i realized today (after the kitten incident) was really a swarm of flies massing over the pavement… sad realization. 
i built a killer fire. however, killer fire was made of bones from livestock the cats eat because humans breed livestock for their own consumption and there is an over abundance of horses and cows and they get sick and die from small enclosures and poor care and then they can’t sell them for meat and we have rescued cats because humans breed cats for their own amusement and then can’t take care of them. what a fucking horrible cycle. i wish we could go back a few hundred thousand years or more. hunter-gather societies, ya know? in my case, more like gather-gather societies… before animal cruelty, child abuse and war, if that time ever existed. in my head it does.
on a tour today a couple mentioned having livestock they’d like to donate when they pass. i asked what they had, they responded with “oh not that much really- just a few cows and calves. we use the calves for meat we eat, or sell them”… i just wanted to vomit, how sick and cruel and just so nauseating. how casually it was stated and that these people actually DO this to animals. had another guy on a tour mentioning how his dog killed a squirrel and that he boiled it in water and ate it. WHAT THE FUCK.
happy thoughts now… i get to see my family in five days. i deleted my facebook. i’m disconnecting from the negativity. from distractions. looking to sell my jeep soon, pay off student loans and get to livin’ in the woods. also, i finished my three baby slings (one for me, one for my sister, and one for my friend), preemptively of course. it’ll be a loooooooooooooooong time before i have any (IF any) children, but in my wishes to release attachments to objects, i had to finish using my sewing machine forever so i’ll be getting selling that too at some point.
OH! and i had something “pseudo-published”… not officially, but some friends asked me to write a 500 word dealie about the cats for their newsletter they send out to hundreds of thousands of homes up in Chicago for their cat shelter month article… and they put it in! psyched! 
peace and purrs.
p.s. leopard nose and flowers >.<
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