Like her protagonist Shannon Kendricks, Cathy Parker is an attorney. She volunteered as a zoo keeper's aide for eight years and did have a very special beluga buddy, Mauyak, just as Shannon Kendricks has. As to encounters with alien children, as in the trilogy, she is not saying. She was also a radio and print journalist and once was the 'Jill of all trades' for a small satellite paper in Wyoming. She did everything from taking to the photos to writing the articles and op-ed pieces to helping with layout and hauling the newspapers through blizzards once a week. As a result, she saw lambs being born and went on a cattle drive and ate her first (and last) Rocky Mountain Oyster. She has seen mountain gorillas in the wild in Rwanda and orangutans in Borneo and even rocked an orphaned baby orangutan to sleep on her chest. She has volunteered with a chimpanzee sanctuary for former research subjects. So you can see where her heart lies. Currently she lives in Costa Rica with her black cat. All similarities between her cat and the trilogy's Narcissus are purely and probably coincidental.
I have brought back the Resplendent Quetzal this week because I am in need of his lovely image. Last week I went down to Panama to a town called David for a few days. I decided to take the bus which was a little out of my comfort zone, as the language is still something of a barrier to me. {I am trying so hard, but languages are just not in my competence wheelhouse} and the trip entailed a rather adventurous border crossing. But all was well. Made it there, made it back last Friday --and as I was debarking the bus, I fell and injured my hip. Also received a nasty cut to my elbow which earned me my first ambulance ride to the little hospital down the way from Uvita where I live in Costa Rica to Cortes. But the hip is the lingering issue. Hurts a very lot. Which makes for a sudden change in perspective. What I absolutely had to get done yesterday is simply not doable today. So, oh well. A sudden unexpected change in perspective is sometimes a hard thing. But I am finding it good for contemplating what really matters. Not the things I thought I simply had to get done yesterday.
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