Tatiana

As you know they killed me yesterday at the S.F. zoo.  It took four heavily armed men.
I finally escaped from hell and, as instinct would have it, I killed one and wounded two. They are lucky to be alive.

As the Tibetans say, "I would rather be a tiger for one day than a sheep for 1,000 years."

Now I am free.

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This was originally posted on 25 December 2006.

My name is Tatiana. I weigh 350 pounds. I warned them not to move me from Denver to San Francisco. I was really happy there. They didn't listen. They were more interested in my breeding instincts, hoping I'd mate with a 14-year old tiger.

Well, I wasn't pleased with this arrangement and practiced polite behavior behind bars for a year. This is easy for me coming from Siberia where you learn the art of stealth and cunning.

Face it folks, I am at the top of the food chain and the fortified horse meat garbage they give us here is worthless.

I don't know who's responsible for my being here and I don't care. All I know is that being in captivity for the pleasure of stupid humans is a fate worse than dying in Siberia. There, at least I have a chance. Here, I'm just another cute animal lying around dreaming of my freedom.

As you may have heard, yesterday I seized, if you'll pardon the pun, my slim chance when the lady who feeds me made a crucial mistake. She opened the metal feeding slot to put the horsemeat into my cage. A kid asked her a question. She hesitated. ZAP! I grabbed her arm.

Her screams were music to my ears. My eyes narrowed.

I heard she may lose it but hey, life is a beautiful struggle for survival. Given more space it would've been the jugular. Quick and silent.

You take what you can get at feeding time. Instinct is beautiful.

Do Amazing Things - Take Amazing Risks

As the skydiver who dreamed of flying said, "If you want to do amazing things you have to take amazing risks."

So it goes in the land of Attitude where flags become snarled on lines of nationalistic winds. Hot air sweeps north from the jungles of snow taxis playing solos. Where women do all the work. Their men alternate between racing oil soaked engines, playing bored board games with small round trees or shuffling paper in historical crypts.

Most stand around with hard hands buried in empty pockets waiting for something to happen.

The majority of people here suffer from anxiety. They take anti-depressants to calm their neurosis. Symptoms of overwhelming sadness dresses them in rose petals between self-pity and thorns.

Peace.

 

Book Jacket Blurb

Here's the jacket blurb.

You need a comfortable jacket when fall and winter dance between seasonal shifts.

As Basho, the Haiku poet said, "Travel is human life-life is a journey."

An experiment in perspective, an epic with multiple players, "A Century Is Nothing" takes the reader on a pilgrimage to the subconscious.

Join Omar, an exiled Tuareg Berber and blind prescient writer from the Moroccan Sahara, on his travels as he and Mr. Point, a Vietnam veteran he meets after 9/11, share dreams, myths, and cogitations. Within the harmonious triad of language, countries, and friends, Omar's journey begins in Morocco; takes him through Ireland, Kuwait, Israel, Bhutan, Japan, Vietnam, the Taos Pueblo, Bali, China, and Tibet; and eventually to 26,000-year-old Paleolithic caves in Spain.

Experiencing joy with a playful childlike sense of delight, the wayfarers explore cultural communities with great passion through healing and meditation. Their stories establish a circle of friendship where authenticity, compassion, kindness, and awareness are highly valued.

A Century Is Nothing explores the journey of life to discover the very essence of the human soul.**__

Many Thanks

Greetings,

Yes, my dear friend Tom in the states of amnesia has received one hard copy and boxes of paperbacks.

He said he will wrap up the hard copy in an airtight container and bury it beneath a sarcophagus. A time capsule memory.

The paperbacks will be dispersed through the world to individuals. Such a fine little gift.

Many thanks to each and all of you for giving my novel a little look-see, turning pages, inside and outside the perpetual dance of dreams.

Omar sends his regards from Spain. "It's a thing of beauty."
I couldn't have completed it without his wisdom and guidance.
May your path be filled with light and love.

A Century Is Nothing

Greetings,

I am pleased to say my novel, "A Century Is Nothing," is available through Amazon and iUniverse links on the sidebar. Now I am free to connect with you and others. It's a real joy.

How does it feel to work on a book for what appears to be forever and then let it go? Strange and liberating, like exhaling far out into deep space.

Yes, this transition feels calm and centered knowing the work is now not my responsibility - how I have hunted and gathered, sifted, sorted, analyzed it and nurtured it along the edges of dreams, facts, and playful imaginations.

So it goes now dancing free filled with the kindness, respect, dignity and mind fullness it deserves. Out into the stillness, from the center.

Thanks for reading it should you get a copy. It may make a fine little gift for someone special in your life as we share the adventure.

I look forward to your comments, critiques, and thoughts.

Peace.