We brought  Ripley's ashes home yesterday.

The urn is inside a small white, paper bag, with looped handles that we've placed on the kitchen table.  It might be  gift bag, were it not for the  name of the Pet cemetery in tastefully font-ed black  print.

 I've taken a look inside.   Vinci, at dr Sullivan's  had offered to clip a bit of Ripley's hair as a memento.  I recognize the cream and apricot strands from the long flow of her ears.   That's as far as I gotten. 

I did move the bag,  otherwise, unexamined to the mantle,  which seems more fitting.    As it's fitting she came home yesterday. It was during this  week  9 years ago , that Ripley first came home  with  us. Somehow,  and I think for right mow, (I will allow myself to opine freely), I really did prefer Ripley's 2005  homecoming.

(I shall be a grown up about it next  week)

Avoid those who best love you

 when you are least Yourself. 

 You better make sure you marry someone you Like, who Likes you too, 'cause sometimes Love gets lost coming home.

A rumination on Pluto

      It’s all too rude. Poor Pluto was hanging out in the Solar system minding his own business doing his same old weirdly axis-ed orbit he’s always done; when some nosy astronomers discovered Pluto’s Moon Charon, and by measuring Charon’s orbit concluded Pluto was much smaller than they’d thought.  When it comes to planets size DOES matter and it was downhill from there.  Nosy astronomers started treating him like an asteroid on steroids.   Then in 2006 International Astronomical Union (The world’s largest collection of Professional nosy astronomers who get to decide these things) using Pluto’s “low” mass and other standards including his own freaky orbit voted to de-planetize Pluto.   First they called him a “dwarf Planet”  then, I guess to mollify the rest of the solar system, who must be pissed to see their brother so put down, have decided he’s  “an important proto-type of a new class of trans-Neptunian objects”  They are calling these objects "Plutoids." (Which doesn't sound at all nice; and rather like a hemorrhoid treatment)

  So, he’s a  Plutoid, which is a dwarf planet. (Kind of a planet-lite, but he’s still been tossed out of our Solar System’s pantheon of full blooded,  Big-massed  planets)  So our home star Sol, is down to 8 planetary bodies dancing about her sphere.   Frankly, since Voyager 2 did its fly-by the IAU has been looking at her 7^th planet with a jaundiced eye.  If they ever get a probe out there our solar system may be knocked down to just 7 planets ending with Neptune.       
  
  So Sol, you better watch Uranus!

Verbositation

Verbosity, is of course, as all are aware, the quintessence, the ultimate, the epitome, – (if you will, or perhaps, even if you will not, although of course you really should agree-), that Verbosity is the very soul of Imbrevity!

Warning: Facebook is a gateway drug

Warning: Facebook is a gateway drug that can lead to full blown Writing!

It starts with the occasional quip, or one liner and you’re thinking, "Yeah, that was cool, I could hit that again." But before too long you start paying attention to spelling and punctuation. You’re slipping in to indented paragraphs with parenthetical statements. You find yourself paying attention to sentence structure 

and reexamining word choice. Next you’re checking the web to confirm your grammar. You’re losing it! You've got Wikipedia links on your desk top, and you fact check your every post. Still, it’s not too late. Get help! You’ll know you've hit rock bottom when Thesaurus.com begins offering you multiword discounts!!!

Remember: there’s no going back once you start to Blog… Seek treatment while you still can!

 Oh, Dear... I'm lost.

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