juushika

Thank you for keeping up with replies and comments through my radio silences and general bad communication. I've had limited computer time and even less energy, but it was genuinely helpful to me that you were still there, still paying attention, even noticed when I went AWOL! It's a hard thing to balance, you know?--maintaining social connections during a pandemic, especially when it's always hard to maintain connections, moreso when there are other things that make the pandemic worse and which are made worse by the pandemic. Seeing your messages pop up made me feel like I was still connected, despite all those roadblocks.


I used to read Caitlín R. Kiernan's blog on LJ (I don't think she ever made the change to DW) and she collected whiskers, too. I honestly can't remember if that's where I got the idea, or if I found that out after I'd started, but we're not alone! I'd love to see your collection or details about it. I keep mine in an envelope, it's so boring. (The pic I saw of Kiernan's collection was in a small corked glass vial, which is something I should hunt down someday for the exact purpose--it looked lovely!) But I love how many I've managed to find over the years, and I love how good I've gotten at telling difference between whisker and hair--the base of a whisker has such distinctive shape and tension.