Friday Evening Stuff

Today I received a couple of informative and disturbing emails from acquaintances in Pakistan and Kenya.

My friend from Pakistan wrote:

“The Economist has named Pakistan the “world’s most dangerous place.” We Americans who are living here have known that for a long time. Musharraf pays lip service to the Bush administration while in his own way supporting Islamic extremists…If the truth ever comes out, the assassination of Benazir Bhutto was directly or indirectly the action of the Musharraf régime…We look forward to the day when we finish our work here and are able to return to the U.S.”

My friend in Nairobi, a Kenyan pastor who I met almost ten years ago when he was visiting Louisville, wrote:

“It has been like living in the middle of a civil war…People are frightened and (his wife) worries about our children…Please say prayers for us and for all the people here.”

I set my video camera to automatic and attempted to shoot a movie of Alex’s feeding ritual, which is more complex than a high church liturgy. Unfortunately, the furball and I move around too much in the ceremony and are off screen quite a bit. Perhaps I shall teach Tasha, my VA-supplied part-time housekeeper, to use the camera and try again to capture the feeding dance of the furball.

Speaking of Tasha, today I learned that the VA has OK’d her being here 4-hours-a-day for three days a week rather than the two days a week she has been. That’s wonderful for me, but I am unsure what it says about my declining health.

Alex has blogged about the Iowa caucus—“carcass” according to him—on his blog and seems to have feline insights that we humans lack. You may read his blog post HERE.

It’s about time I began sharing some of the several blog awards I have so graciously been given. So……….

I pass on the The Good Buzz Blog Award to:

• Eternally Curious at Keep You Day Job But You Ought to Write, Too.

• Robin at Robin’s A View from the Penthouse

• Xmichra at Xmichra

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with my blessings!