https://www.lelandquarterly.com/2009/01/resources-for-compassion/ Sun, 29 Aug 2010 13:40:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://www.lelandquarterly.com/2009/01/resources-for-compassion/comment-page-1/#comment-14442 Sun, 29 Aug 2010 13:40:14 +0000 https://www.therowboat.com/?p=452#comment-14442 I am thinking about the fleeting lives of my ferrets again. I bought a picture frame for my house and put a photograph of me and my dog in it. My dog has passed away. Suddenly I look at my ferret photographs and realize that this is all I will have of them along with all my memories. I am not sure I will want to take any more pictures. I take photographs as a form of artistic expression though. I just might not want to take a portrait anymore. That goes for anyone I love too. As long as there is something else that the photograph is saying I should be fine, which goes with the rest of my art. So I guess I have got things figured out. Thanks for listening.

]]> https://www.lelandquarterly.com/2009/01/resources-for-compassion/comment-page-1/#comment-14117 Sun, 15 Aug 2010 11:20:34 +0000 https://www.therowboat.com/?p=452#comment-14117 I had a visit from a very cute asian police officer this evening, and we were talking about ferrets. He had two when he was a kid, named yin and yang. Mine are named wasabi and wabi sabi. They are only two. He said his only lived seven years. I had heard of them living as long as fifteen years. Anyway he was very helpful the reason I had to call him about and when I asked him what his name was he turned back and said O. He said his name was just O and always was. He could have had an O in his chest in leggings and a cape. And while he helped rescue my ferrets and played with them, I felt as if their lives had been cut in half. I can’t accept that a ferrets life is supposed to be seven years. Fifteen seems reasonable. Mine will probably live longer because they run around free and are not locked in a cage. I don’t want my ferrets to die. They seem like little people more than ferrets, in that they seem very intelligent and worthy of more life. They have no idea I think about their fate. I feel like I know something they don’t. I would like for them to become human or for their spirits to go into humans. I raised them and now they are so intelligent and well rounded, that I think they won’t handle dying as well as some other ferrets. Or I won’t handle it very well. Especially wabi sabi. He is very pensive, moody and philosophical. I even wonder if he is much smarter than the average ferret. She too is remarkably present and I think she thinks she is becoming human. They play their ferret games with me, wrestling, leap frog, tag, hide and seek, tug of war, steal and hide things, climb me and things, burrow in anything and run out the door.

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