Science fiction, fantasy, mystery and what-not
Floofiosa (catfinition) – member of the secret society of cats called the floofia. Floofiosa live under a strict code of floofmerta, an honor system that calls for no cat to ever betray another.
In use: “With his big body and thick black fur, Boo looked more like a small black bear than a floofiosa.”
Easy to forget, hard to remind myself – don’t let others shape me. Intellectually, I often remember this. Emotionally…well, that’s more difficult.
Cranking up a childhood favorite, “I’m Going Home” by Ten Years After, as played at Woodstock. The song’s frenetic energy at the beginning and end appealed to me as a thirteen-year-old. Now I think the guitar riffs capture the feel of the original rockers. Well, they sample quite a bit of others in this medley.
Of course, in the military, when a deployment was ending, and then later, in marketing, when a show was ending, and then in management, when I could finally leave corporate headquarters and go home, this was my internal joy song – “I’m going home!”
Lot of memories of time and place embedded in this song for me.
Michael Seidel, writer 