Is naming a #cat a #riteofpassage ?

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Good morning. ☕☕☕

10 October 2025

Last night, we attended our nephew’s graduation from the Basic Peace Officer’s Course—a police academy run by a Texas sheriff’s department. He’s now officially a deputy. It was a proud moment for all of us, a rite of passage and a major milestone in his life.

After the ceremony, we headed to Pappadeaux’s for supper. With a large party in tow, seating proved tricky. Eventually, the manager emerged with a plan: two adjacent tables near the window, one already empty, the other occupied by guests who had finished eating, paid their bill, and were simply lingering. We stood outside, watching through the glass as the scene unfolded. The tables were, in essence, half ours—but the second group wasn’t budging. I suspect they knew others were waiting. Eventually, I saw the manager approach them. He must’ve asked them to leave. Maybe he used that old nightclub line I remember from my younger days: “You don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here.”

Once seated, I was already fading. I told my wife it was past my bedtime. She reassured me I’d be fine, and I replied, “It’s ten minutes to Wapner.” A small comfort—proof that my odd sense of humor hadn’t yet abandoned me.

As the evening settled in, I found myself quietly observing. I can’t follow the chatter in noisy settings, so I drifted into thought. I noticed our nephew and his younger entourage had claimed one table, while we—the elders—gathered at the other. The generational divide was clear but not unwelcome. It felt like a gentle sorting, a ceremonial seating of past and future.

“Few of us go through life without taking part in some kind of rite of passage.” — Hank Nuwer

“Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it… blends yearning and repulsion; and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement.” — George Eliot

“The older I get, the more I love my morning coffee and no one speaking to me.” — Anonymous, Wordgag

#morning #RiteOfPassage #grass #photo

Putting on more than a jacket. Putting on a new attitude. This leather feels like a promise. ♠️ #Femmecanvas #LeatherJacket #SecondSkin #Transformation #Chiaroscuro #Confidence #Becoming #RiteOfPassage #Iconic #RocknRoll

Your vessel becomes a holy one, when you liberate yourself from dependencies.

#poem #poetry #poet #write #writing #writer #author #books #thoughts #philosophy #love #romance #charm #emotional #stoic #stoicism
#virtue #ethics #moral #riteofpassage #wisdom #philosopher #knowledge #gentleman

If you are afraid of death, it’s a sign you haven’t lived enough.

#poem #poetry #poet #write #writing #writer #author #books #thoughts #philosophy #love #romance #charm #emotional #stoic #stoicism
#virtue #ethics #moral #riteofpassage #wisdom #philosopher #knowledge #gentleman

Battle at Carp Creek

In the shadow of the 80s, two gangs of high school boys turn a quiet creek into a battleground, wielding tridents in a savage fight for dominance. As the water runs red and bodies fall, nature watches with eerie patience, ready to feast on the aftermath.

https://www.wattpad.com/story/374783811?utm_source=android&utm_medium=link&utm_content=story_info&wp_page=story_details_button&wp_uname=TragicMammal

#CarpCreek #TeenViolence #80sHorror #DarkFiction #SuspenseStory #MacabreTales #Thriller #BattleAtCarpCreek #TeenRivalry #RiteOfPassage #HighSchoolDrama #DarkSecret #ForgottenBattles #GoryTales

Emperor penguin chicks jump off a 50-foot cliff in Antarctica NEVER-BEFORE-FILMED FOR TV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PwDFddpo4c

#NaturalWorld #NationalGeographic #Antartica #EmporerPenguins #RiteOfPassage

I can die happy now that I've been boosted by @lisamelton. #RiteOfPassage #LisaBoosted

Forget graduating school: the passage into adulthood should be sailing around the world solo. Call it the Rite of Circumnavigation.

Painting is Ivan Aivazovsky's "Strong Wind".

#art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #sea #ocean #sailing #thoughts #society #sailing #riteofpassage #adulthood #childhood #school #education #circumnavigation

#Mastodon #RiteOfPassage I was boosted by @donmelton!!! I LIVE!! I LIVE!! I LIVE!! I LIVE!! I LIVE!!

#AlwaysAMovieReference #JohnCarpenter #silly

Cheese rolling: an ancient Celtic rite? Another cheese roll and wake is behind us. Our UK correspondent, Liz Williams, reports from Cooper’s Hill and raises some hypothesized Celtic origins of the festival.

https://wildhunt.org/2023/06/cheese-rolling-an-ancient-celtic-rite.html

#cheeserolling #coopershill #riteofpassage #cheese #celts

Interesting article about #FrankOcean at #Coachella and the mass production approach of some groups like Blackpink and performances including DJ sets. -> @timjonesbooks

Music festivals are a great place for some people to discover new music & I'm enjoying the livestreams. For in person attendees it seems to be a dance party and an experience, almost a #RiteOfPassage

For performers the experience is more mixed. The bigger the listing, the higher the expectations. https://www.theringer.com/music/2023/4/20/23690896/frank-ocean-coachella-festival-weekend-1-2-cancellation

VISION QUEST WITH BETULA & MAMABUCHE
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Klein Hundorf, Mecklenburg, Northern Germany
Guided by Manuela Bosch
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3rd till 12th of July, 2023
Registration closes by 21st of March
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Visit our home in the web and find out more:
www.betulaundmamabuche.org
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#naturetime #solotime #fasting #riteofpassage #visionssuche #visionquest #threshold #primalnature

Psychogeography at the threshold of desire: Andrei Tarkovsky's sublime STALKER (1979) is on #BFIPlayer from today
#SciFi #SpiritualQuest #RiteOfPassage https://projectedfigures.com/2018/01/15/stalker-1979

The characters are fully realized. The tropes of the genre are respected, but critically examined. The pace is fast moving, the action interesting, the technology appropriately awe-inspiring, and the humanity of the characters evident.

How do you rate the absolute pinnacle of a series, the Heinlein Juvenile, that doesn't belong to the series? I rate it highly. /FIN

#BookReview #RiteOfPassage

The character's progress from annoying misfit to engaged member of her authoritarian polity, told in the first person in the guise of a memoir of her Trial, is engaging and thoughtful. The book is steeped in the overpopulation issues of the 60's, but the ecological collapses brought on by various forms of fundamentalism, economical and religious, still resonate today. /3

#BookReview #RiteOfPassage

Respectful to the genre while sometimes savagely and subtly commenting on it, Panshin has written the story of a young woman who is the daughter of the administrator of starship made of a miles-wide asteroid as she faces her rite of passage, her Trial. /2

#BookReview #RiteOfPassage

My #BookReview of #RiteOfPassage by #AlexeiPanshin:

https://multcolib.bibliocommons.com/v2/comment/2233637172

One of the cornerstones of 1950's SF was the Heinlein Juvenile, a series of a dozen young adult science fiction coming-of-age novels written by Robert Heinlein. Authors who grew up on them have attempted to reproduce them, since. None but Panshin have gotten it exactly right. /1