This is from Hanna (click the image to go to her site for the large, readable one):
I love this story, and cats’ tendency to develop attachments to
creatures of other kinds. I have a few more of these, and they will
make a nice post all together, one day. But not today.
What I especially like about this story is this:
Tigger is a nasty old cat, who will bite and hiss and scratch, but he just melts around Annie . . .
This week’s Carnival of Cats; Carnival of Dogs; Friday Ark.
I spent most of my professional life teaching assertiveness to women,
and working in, developing, or managing, offender treatment programs.
All focused on personal responsibility, accountability — changing
language from I can’t to I won’t or I choose not to or just No; from it happened to I did it.
Now I must learn how different it feels to say (mostly to myself) I
choose not to because I will find the consequent pain and fatigue too
much to bear, no matter the pleasure or satisfaction I might gain from
doing this thing than I choose not to because I don’t want to incur the anger of X, or I don’t want to, or . . .
Or, sometimes, I can’t. I cannot do it. I am unable to do it.
So. Not today.
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