Good few days, Folks.
I won’t question it. Not too much panic. Good food. Exercise. Relaxed. I need to acknowledge that shit or I don’t register that it actually happened. Events and feelings are fleeting and flying into the past must faster than they used to. It all seems farther away. And the trance of youth is lifting. Only the fading present remains.
Not great news on the cat front. As I mentioned last show I took a very small kitten from under my back stairway. I don’t think it was abandoned. I believe the mother was moving his other five siblings under the back deck which is where they were for a few days. I’m sure she was going to get to him eventually. She can't now because I took him. I handed the little guy over to Kit to bottle feed for a few weeks. He comes and hangs at the house sometimes. He’s about three weeks old and his name is Charlie Roscoe because I can’t decide which name I like better. Charlie. Roscoe. I believe he will be my cat.
The bad news is the rest of the family is gone. She moved them all again. She still comes around to eat but I have no idea where the kittens are. The plan was to let them feed until they surfaced and then get them all trapped and fixed and tagged and ready for adoption and to release her, fixed, out into the wild. That plan is dashed. I have no idea the fate of those kittens or if they are even still around. It’s sad. It’s the way of the wild. I have no control. I do have Charlie Roscoe. In retrospect it was a good move to take him. He may be the only one that lives or the only one that isn’t feral.
I will keep my eye out for those kittens or try to follow mom to where they are but it's not easy. We’ll see. It is kind of a load off because I was going to have to pull up the deck slats to get at them. No more. The not-knowing is sad but we’ll see. They may surface.
I’ve filed my application for Permanent Residency in Canada which is exciting. I may not get it and it could take years but I feel like I took action that gives me a little peace of mind. I know that they say, ‘No place to run. No place to hide.’ That’s not quite true. You can run and you can hide for a while. In the big picture all I have is a while. Climate change is hard to run from. Fascism is a little easier to run from until all of the scorched earth is one big fascist shit show. Hopefully I’ll miss that. I like Canada. I like working up there. It would be more like a green card than total citizenship. I could work towards that. This country is toast.
Today I talk to Christina Ricci about her life. It was nice to meet her and hang out and talk. Thursday, I have the newly out Jerrod Carmichael back on. He’s been on the show before but he wasn’t his whole self. Great talks.
Enjoy!
Boomer, Monkey and LaFonda live!
Love,
Maron
The Way of the Wild.
