The end of the week is nigh, though not the end of the world, as some pastors predict. Today the CeilingCatMobile gets its inspection by my insurance company, and then it can be fixed, at enormous expense to my university shuttle-bus company’s insurance carrier. It will need a new left eye, whiskers, and a refurbished coat on the front.
Yesterday Hili met the woman who rescued her. After Hili’s predecessor died, the awesomely wise tabby Pia (she had but one tooth in her mouth), Andrzej and Malgorzata were disconsolate, and didn’t even contemplate getting another cat. And then one day, about two years ago, Aneta showed up on their doorstep with a tiny tabby kitten in her hands. It was Baby Hili, who needed a home. Andrzej and Malgorzata took her in, and the rest is history. And here she is:
Hili: It was Aneta who brought me here when I was little, wasn’t it?
A: Yes.
Hili: Ask her to come more often to pet me.
As lagniappe, here’s Baby Hili shortly after she arrived at her forever home:
In Polish:
Hili: Czy to Aneta mnie tu przyniosła jak byłam mała?
Ja: Tak.
Hili: To poproś ją, żeby teraz częściej przychodziła mnie głaskać.
From the list of solar eclipses for the next 1,000 years, I would say these ‘end times’ would have to be very drawn out!
I forgot how young Hili is… 🙂
In my lifetime alone, Xtian pastors have accurately predicted five of the last zero apocalypses. You’d think people might take a hint from that by now, but their faith is too strong to be shaken by mere “facts” and “logic”! Or as Deepakity might put it, they don’t have enough faith to trust skepticism over belief.
Either way, those doomsayers are doing it worng.
Thank you, Aneta, for setting the stage for the “Hili dialogues.” this is literally my first email stop everyday, with a cup of coffee…!
…if you are putting the kettle on…!
Lucky Hili for ending up with such devoted staff.
And the eclipse? Completely overcast here in London. It got a bit dark for a while, that was it! Summed up very well here.
I think that I need to fix that link!
We have a google doodle that eclipses… https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?hl=en
unlike the grey London sky!
Aw, I love both these heart-warming pics of Hili…such a pretty girl…just what I needed this morning.
What a sweet story – glad Hili got to see her rescuer again!
I think it’s Hili who rescues us.
Hili Dialogue is the first email of the day. She is a cutie. 🙂
The difficulty and anguish of being an atheist is that I have no magic consolation to comfort me in the exigencies of life. I don’t want to be an atheist. Being a social science statistician, I realize that if prayers were answered there would be no system.
Hili is my first email of the day. Perhaps she is my magic consolation.
But…isn’t this — all this — enough?
The actual, real world is so much more mind-boggling amazing and beautiful than any ever described by any religion. The religious say their fantasies are beautiful…but, honestly? They can’t hold a candle to reality.
b&
Oh, yes. I think Jerry needs to write a book about how one copes without the promise of Heaven.
I think Phil Kitcher has already done that.
Baby Hili! I could eat her with a spoon.
Thanks for taking us back into Hili’s timestream (sorry, just watched two episodes of Doctor Who and it’s hard not to slip into Who-isms).
I also make sure to visit Hili daily.
Yes, she was such a gorgeous kitten! I can’t get over how cute she was (and is of course). I love her daily dialogue – it always adds smiles to my day.