by Ivana Filip | stu 1, 2021 | Animals, Cats, Compassion, Home, Inspiration, Nonhumans
“We stand for our rights and we roooooooooar!” — From the Manifesto of Catopia, by Ivana Filip and Catpeople Free roaming cats are cats who were once pets, but were lost or left outside and cats born outside, with no or very little contact with humans. Authors...
by Ivana Filip | lis 18, 2021 | Animals, Cats, Compassion, Everyday, Home, Inspiration, Nonhumans, Poetry
“Great teachers often come to us in humble packaging.” — Linda Bender A poem to Ixxo is a poem dedicated to my cat. Usually, I write my blog posts on Sunday afternoon, but several weeks ago it started to feel annoying. Sunday is my computer-free day, but two...
by Ivana Filip | svi 25, 2021 | Animals, Cats, Compassion, Everyday, Nonhumans, Photography, Storytelling
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” – Martin Luther King Jr. I wrote this short story / biographic note in 2016 for the final thesis while preparing my final exam at the art academy. And the story goes… I saw the opportunity to take my...
by Ivana Filip | svi 10, 2021 | Cats, Compassion, Creativity, Eco, Everyday, Home, Nonhumans, Photography, Storytelling
What distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the development of language in which words were not mere signals, but signifiers of something other than themselves. Yet the first symbols were...
