TheBanyanTree: Forgiveness (Janice Money)

[Tom Smith]

> First, have you tried wrapping her like a baby in a towel?  Before she gets to 
> see anyone doing anything related to getting the carrier out?

Good idea.  That worked, once.  Seeing a towel thereafter would be a tip-off.
Scooping up a wisecat on the run would definitely be better with a towel than
bare-handed, though.

> ... Maybe, soon, we'll all have ebola.  Now I'm just going to forget about 
> that too.  This morning we had an invasion of ants.  That's enough to worry 
> about for now.

Same here on the ants.   I tried an experiment with a easy to concoct 
non-toxic mix that I found out about on the Web:  1 part baking soda, 1 part 
powdered sugar, and a small bit of active dry yeast.   Scout ants take it back
to the colony and it kills the queen.  Saw some scout ants.  Put about half a 
teaspoon pile of the mix near them.  The scouts were keenly interested.  I've 
never seen ants at that location again.  

One of life's greatest certainties is that there will always be something to 
worry about.  So it's a more interesting and rewarding challenge for me to 
become aware of and attend to pleasant things.   Negative images are very 
powerful and we're evolutionarily biased to give them top priority.   I try to 
shield myself, in the remains of my time, from bad news.  I'm OK with
being ignorant.  ; )