Still Looking For Coffee Cats, I Guess

Listen to the zen kitty.

Every once in a while, I check out what keywords people used and ended up here. I wrote about the results here -- basically, people look for coffee&cats and find me.

So, here's a new round of the keywords people used and got here, it's from the last month.

- coffee cat
- cat coffee (yeah, you can try it like that too)
- need more coffee (try making some?)
- cat with coffee
- coffee cats
- 10 matchstick triangles (probably because of The Bone Cathedral)
- blue and white animated bird (this one, perhaps?)
- how do you find me? (heh)
- ivana skrobonja (sorry to disappoint you, but that's not me; my name is Ivana and I translate and sometimes write for Goran Skrobonja, who's a writer, a translator and a publisher, so maybe that's what confused Google to lead you here)
- kitty doing zen (I agree, cats are totally zen)

The first results were from March, and these are from June; do you think I should be writing about other things, not just cats and coffee?

Oh, wait, I'm already doing that. Google Almighty doesn't seem to notice, though. Not that it troubles me; cats and coffee and zen are fine subjects, and if that's what I'm recognized for, nice.

And, since you're here, would you like some coffee? Take your pick:

Coffee?

Of Zen, Health and Lily Allen

Zen can improve your health. So can cats.

There's this virus going around where I live, giving trouble to everyone; combine it with a lot of work, and there's almost no way of avoiding it. There was a bit of luck in all that; the publisher told me he decided to delay the publishing of the book I'm currently translating for a little, meaning I had more time to translate it, meaning I could actually allow myself to be sick and not work for as long as I can keep my eyes open.

During that pause, I've read The Training of the Zen Buddhist Monk by D.T. Suzuki. It's a short book, and a quick read; and yet, it's so full of information. It starts from the moment a monk gets refused at the door, goes through the acceptance, the work, the service, the humility, the koan the monk receives,  the meditation, the rules everyone has to obey... And a lot more. The book is also filled with naive, and yet so lovely, illustrations by another Zen Buddhist monk, showing all the phases of a monk's life and the instruments used in Zen Buddhism. Such a simple book, and a wonderful read. And it helped me feel a bit better and do some more work. The feel-better didn't last for all that long, but hey, every bit helps, and I have no doubt I'll recover eventually.

Lately, I've been listening to some Lily Allen songs, and for some reason, the one bellow, if you pay attention to the lyrics, went quite well with the book.