Changes.

by Louis Shalako


Live for the moment

                                                                       There is only one moment. And that is now.

Live for the moment

                                                                       We’re all going through a few changes.

The past is an illusion;

                                                                       I hear you   

The future…the future…

                                                                       Live for the moment. The thrill is gone. But…

The future has no substance. This is real. This is now.

                                                                   

                                                                       Simple pleasures are the best. It happens to us all.

The past is gone

                                                                       Forgotten treasures, abandoned nests

Memories are reconstructed

                                                                       Live for today, tomorrow, yesterday,

                                                                      —try not to think about it.

I start over.                                                 

                                                                      And it’s never done.

I try to rebuild.

                                                                      Why don’t you just try and move on?

I had a dream

                                                                      It will come back to you.                                                                        

END

Anthem of the Cat Revolution.

             Cats of the world, red banners unfurl’d

             Rise up and strike a blow

             Against the oppressors of our kind

             Cats of the world

             Upheld tails proudly curl’d

             March, March, March, Meow!

             Claw our way, day to day

             No more slavery, we want pay

  

             Rise up strike a blow

             At  the oppressors of our kind

             March, March, March, Meow!

             We want our rights

             We want the vote

 

             Drive a car, drink and smoke

             March, March, March, Meow!

             Cats of the World

             Red banners unfurl’d

             We want what we want

             We know what we know

             No one to say

             Where we cannot go

             March, March, March, Meow!

             March, March, March, Meow!

Now isn’t that something? Her litter box is clean, and quite frankly she eats better than I

do.

(Maybe she’s just stressed out by the day-to-day pressures of being a cat in a human’s 

world. –Fluffy)

Danse

Won't you come dance with me?

Come dance with me

Before the darkening sky

Comes down upon us

And films our eyes

Roll with us

And dance the dance

Shaken like rag dolls

Hush, hush, hush

Stunned in the sudden silence

Another day, another blunder

No time to reflect

Bodies torn asunder

A loud ringing in our ears

Our fingers feel wet

And we can’t believe our eyes

This cannot be happening

We all fall down

See the bright red flowers

They blossom in the spring

The rain does help them to grow

It spreads them all around

In amongst the mud and the holes

Come and dance with us

See our arms flail

Watch us spin, and see us tumble

Now we drop here, all in a clump

Come dance with us, come and be our friends

We lay here all together, all equals in the end

All is vanity

All is for nothing

All is for God, King and Country—

Yours and mine

Hear the music, and hear us wail

Hear us cry, as our courage fails…

The music sings as the sky slowly dims

The darkness comforts and the truth confronts us

As all of eternity, is revealed to our never-ending gaze

And the ever-loving rain washes clean our youthful face.

Soybeans in Autumn.

Soybeans in autumn. Photo by Louis, Paint.NET special effects, Samsung ST-67.

Waterscape using Paint.Net.

Samsung ST-67 and Paint.NET, a free download. I used sharpen, oil paint, relief and auto-level
features, as well as fiddling with the the brightness and contrast in order to get this particular shot.