Dog, Cat, Rat - A Lesson For Us All

If this Dog, Cat, and Rat cam be friends and live in harmony together it makes you wonder why so many humans can’t. A message of peace from Greg Pike and his amazing animals.

Love & Life In An Igloo

I caught half of a documentary about the daily life of the Eskimos. This is actually an offensive denomination, meaning 'raw meat eaters'. They called themselves Inuit, which simply means 'people'.

Each time I see in films, or read about them on the news, or hear about them in whatever context, one thought always immediately comes to mind that, why oh why they should live in the Arctic, the most inhabitable zone of the planet, within the limited space of an Igloo. I can understand how they got there, running from warriors in the villages, driven by necessity and violence. But staying? Living in the land of nothing but lethal cold with permanent and infinite ice?

But then I thought, while I could practically feel the freezing wind on the screen, we often persevere under abject conditions or circumstances, not of our own choosing but we stay put too, without making an effort to change the situation. Metaphorically speaking, like a couple staying together not exactly for love, but for convenience, convention, economic or family ties. Perhaps the very long, slow, complex and difficult construction of a couple's life and home is much the same as the Inuit, consisting in making a life and home where there's nothing.

Or worse. There is something. Hurricanes and colossal storms in the polar circuit, divergent interests and fierce rows in couples. Like the Inuit, people know and remember why they had sought love, for necessity of affection, for fear of loneliness, for genetic urgency, for the human need of a mate and a home. But then you need to stay there, to maintain the relationship, the home, the commitments and obligations. Sure you don't have to put up with things you definitely hate, but you do have to put up with something, sometimes.

Maybe that's why there are so many separations and divorces, because tenacity weakens at some points. The perseverance in couples is a mystery. You take too long to reason, to think, to decide. Then you find that years have passed by, and angers muffled, tentative plans shelved, and one day you look around and discover that you and your partner have created a space, modest but warm and familiar, a refuge for two, a protective igloo in the sea of ice.

Tags:Igloo,Eskimos,Inuit

Current Mood: Contemplative

A Story Of Toes ...

When I was still in Yahoo 360, 6 years ago, I had amongst my contacts an Italian man, very very handsome (according to his ID picture, if that's indeed himself), very romantic (according to his messages), and very artistic (according to his page design and his own graphics); the type that would melt every woman's heart.

We communicated fairly regularly (he wrote more often than I did) always telling me how much he liked my photos. The heaps of daily compliments were almost embarrassing. Till, out of a blue, not too long after we were categorised as 'friends', he asked me to post a picture of me, full length, including my feet, on my site. At that time, as is now, I had already started this custom of mine that everybody here in Multiply is by now aware of, that I always put a picture of a female, as my Blog picture. The only difference is, that on my initial period on 360, I put photos of myself instead of one of any female, real or avatar. My purpose originally was to find a long lost soul mate, and I thought my own photos might let him recognise me instantly (even without my feet), and renew our contact. He never showed up. But that's another story.

So I told my Italian friend that all Blog pictures were me, but he made it clearer then that he wanted a picture, or as many as I was willing, of me showing my toes! "Show me your toes! Please, please!!" he said everyday, in comments, personal messages, Instant messages ... Everyday! He said he loved my toes. How on earth could he love them without ever having seen them to start with, and why my toes? Not my face, my body, my mind ... just my toes!! With nail polish he even suggested once. Somehow, according to him, he was already in love with them (the toes), never said he was with me! I got fed up with the many weird & repeated requests and deleted him after a few weeks.

By chance I learned in Internet later that there's such a fetish, people who adore female toes. They get excited just at the sight of them, and can get sexually aroused looking at them or, when circumstances permit, touch them, caress them, smell them, lick and suck them!! It's not a pretty woman in high heels that turn them on, but woman, even ordinary looking, with sandals showing pretty feet and toes. In fact, I wonder whether the feet need to be pretty even, maybe just the toes?

Apparently when these fetishists see pretty toes in the street, very likely they would follow them everywhere. The movie maker Quentin Tarantino is a self confessed fetishist of toes. In most of his films one would see woman's feet, walking in close up, full screen shots. In a film of Robert Rodriguez (Open till dawn, 1996) there's a scene with the slurping beer from Salma Hayek's foot.

So just like the ones who adore feet and toes, there are those even 'rape' or violate them, like Joseph Weir, the strange youth who confessed a few years ago that he had 'attacked' a total of 70 pairs of women's feet in the metro of New York, especially of black women; he just couldn't help bending down, respectfully, he said, to 'touch and kiss' them, earning himself some angry kicks on the crutch.

Expressions like ' to surrender at her feet ... worship the ground she walks on' conjure up clearer picture for me now.

I find it all pretty scary.

Tags:fetish,feet,toes

Current Mood: Cynical

My Thoughts Of This & That...

• You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.


• Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.


• A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.


• Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.


• A man may be so much of everything, that he is nothing of anything.


• Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.


• Let your children go if you want to keep them. But I will hang on to the man I love for as long as I am able to.


• It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.


• Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.


• Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.


• Advice is like castor oil, easy to give, but dreadful to take.


• Most people, when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.


• Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.


• There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.


• I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Tags:RandomThoughts

Current Mood: Awake