#365Gratitude Day 342: Courageous Nostalgia

I love rediscovering how much I love something by sharing it with someone else. My friend Amelia (I've spoken about her here before. You may remember that she likes potatoes.) was talking about how she's started getting interested in old movies and tv shows, made before she was even born.  

That reminded me of one of my favorite movies ever, a 1937 Spencer Tracy film called Captains Courageous, based on a Rudyard Kipling book. It's about a spoiled young boy from a rich family, who falls overboard on a cruise, and winds up on a Gloucester fishing boat.

I love this movie. It's tear-bait in much the same way the Pixar movie Up is.  You fall in love with the characters, even the ones you dislike, and then cry your face off as life has its way with them. 

I'm grateful telling Amelia about it has got me thinking about it. I'm going to show it to Missy sometime soon.  

#365Gratitude Day 341: Yang's got her back

So yesterday I'm watching an episode of Star Trek: Voyager on Netflix on my computer, in my home office.  

Missy and I have been watching the series, but stopped.  She loves it though. So she hears it and comes to check it out, and see which one it is. She bends down to look at some detail.  

Yang sees this. He doesn't particularly like Star Trek, seeing as how he is a cat and doesn't comprehend TV in general and streaming content over the Internet in particular. I've tried explaining it to him before, but it never goes well. 

But he does love Missy.  And he really wanted to rub up against her face. So this happened.  

I love these little moments. Clearly I have to watch that show more often.  

#justBecause Do you ever take online polls?

http://strawpoll.me/6210865

#justBecause Help me help my friend?

I have this friend Kim.  She's very nice.
She's in some deep water, and could use help.

Sickness, misfortune, car accident, work mishaps have all swirled together into a hurricane of bad luck.

Let's bail the water out of her tiny boat together, ok?  She doesn't need much.  If we all just pitch in a little, we can make it better.

Here's the link.

#justBecause I like poetry, and I like pussies

My friend Teddy shared a poem with me today, by Edward Leary.

The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea
In a beautiful pea-green boat,
They took some honey, and plenty of money,
Wrapped up in a five-pound note.
The Owl looked up to the stars above,
And sang to a small guitar,
"O lovely Pussy! O Pussy, my love,
What a beautiful Pussy you are,
You are,
You are!
What a beautiful Pussy you are!"

Here's a link to the poem in its entirety.