i'm thinking about the cats, who are either somnolent or discontent, or maybe in penny's case, malcontent betimes. i confess i prefer somnolent cats, when i'm tired and my back is sore, but maybe there's some middle way depending on my orientation; i might be both discontent and somnolent, or simply too busy to play. often i think i want to just stop everything, but that's impossible, and i would go crazy, especially since you can't stop other people, especially cats. the internal adjustments are tricky sometimes, in me and in the house with my housemates. we can't be somnolent all the time, nor discontent, and it's exhausting when you get malcontent. there's too much degradation outside. you get depressed or dissonant or delusional. we have to find harmony within, and in the house with our others. if we have harmony in the house maybe we can bring some harmony with our others outside.