Saturday, January 21, 2012

Goodbye to a Dear Friend

The gg lost a good friend yesterday. My cat of 13 years was put to sleep. She suffered from diabetes and related ailments. I never knew cats could have diabetes, but the more I learned about cats every day, the more I knew that physically they are not much different than us humans. Physically, yes, but in all other respects, no. A cat is nothing like a human. Cats are capable of loving unconditionally. They will even love a grouch. They ask nothing in return. Oh, to be sure they like to be fed and to be scratched under their chin and all the rest, but they will love you just the same regardless. A cat’s love comes in its purest form, the kind that the Creator intended. The kind of love that Jesus taught. The kind that poet Browning talked about. Love for its own sake. I loved Prissy Sue, but I know she loved me even more. It’s easy for even a grouch to love and be loved by a cat.

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Welcome, fellow grouches. Come in, put on a frown and make yourselves at home. According to my family and friends, I've been a grouch for quite some time. I turned 65 a couple of years ago so now not only am I a grouch but an official geezer to boot. A Grouchy Geezer! (But truth be known, I'm a grouch only on days ending in a "Y").

My purpose here is to share some of the things I've observed and experienced over the course of my life that have peeved, annoyed and irritated the crap out of me. Things that helped make me into The Grouchy Geezer. As fellow grouches, I feel sure you, too, have encountered similar things in your lives that have peeved, annoyed and irritated the crap out of you as well. If so, you'll have the chance to share them on this site.

The format is simple. From time to time I will post a pet peeve based on a particular life experience or observation or something currently in the news or in the culture that makes me grouchy.

This will be a free and open board and anyone is welcome to comment. You may comment on my peeve or relate one of your own. Any topic is fair game as long as it is something that makes you grouchy. The only requirement is that you use good taste and refrain from personal attacks. Use of profanity will make me even grouchier and bar you from further access to the site. That means you will have to grouch to your wife, not on here.

None of this is to say that uplifting banter is not encouraged. By all means, if you have something to say that is inspiring or that might force other readers to have to suppress a smile, let us hear it. But don't overdo it; after all, it's our grouchiness that defines and unites us and makes this blog possible.

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