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A chocolate/yellow lab named Xena (she came with it, and she's no warrior nor princess)
A chocolate/yellow-lab-coloured cat named Abby (she came with the name and quickly became our home's current monarch)
Cage 1:
A green singing finch named Chaunticleer (you should hear him in the morning)
A green singing finch named Penelope (who will have none of Chaunty's overtures)
Cage 2:
An orange weaver finch named The Duchess (who rules the roost)
A silver-billed finch named Zeus (who is neither god nor king)
A silver-billed finch named Hera (who should be named "Cuddles")
A silver-billed finch with no name (the offspring of Zeus and Hera)
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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