That sick feeling when someone you liked, even admired, and spent a lot of time listening to is suddenly and credibly accused of terrible behaviors...that's what I have right now.
The Beautiful Thumb
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Just another special snowflake in the drifts of the universe. I talk mostly about Books, Godzilla, cats, dogs, chocolate, music, needlecrafts, mental illness, and getting old. Sometimes I talk about writing or singing or making things, mostly about how I don't anymore but I used to.
I have done this for many years...I reread books, listen again and again to audiobooks and podcast episodes, and rewatch movies and TV shows. I thought it was a symptom of my mental illness. Maybe not.
🦇 Jennie Rigg 🏳️🌈 (she/her)I'm not saying all this just to throw my hands up and go "oh, it's all too difficult!"... but maybe to try to advocate for what this platform seems to do best: slow and thoughtful rather than bulletspeed reactive?
I am sad that I can't take in all the cats around here. I live in town, and there is a colony (among many, it seems) on our alley that several of us care for.
If I had some millions to spend, I would buy one of the abandoned houses around here and turn it into a cat sanctuary (and I'd endow the local shelter for doggo protection.) Ideally, it would also be a place for unhomed people to work and live as well, if they cared for the cats. That's my dream, really.
It is 5F/-15C here. When I ventured onto the porch to feed the semi-feral cats (they have heated houses out there) I tend, they were all grouchy about the ice on the floor, for which I do not blame them. I refilled the (heated) water bowls and berated myself for not getting the heated mat for under their food bowls. I spread straw so they could stand without actual contact with the ice. I got inside as soon as I was done, because I can't do anything with gloves on and my hands were blue.
I wonder how many people will return to full time Twitter use now that the Musk is stepping down as CEO -- although he still owns it, and still has control over it. #nevergoback #Thisbirdhasflown
Gavin @ Small Beer PressFirst pre-pub review for Sarah Pinsker's March 2023 collection and it's a *star* from PW!
https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781618731999
https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781618731999
At the end of every year I pile up books that I intend to read the next year. I have a shelf set aside for those books.
However, I might read 3 or 4 from that large shelf, and I get distracted by other books not in that pile. I also start reading a book, then see another book and start reading that one, then another and another, and never finish reading any of them.
Still some time left in the year. Going upstairs to read. I'll make lists later.
This is the first part of the shelves we are building in our library. One corner almost done but already full (nonfiction, biography, history, and so forth). The boxes are full of books awaiting the next section. The rest of the room is a hodgepodge of assorted shelves waiting to be replaced.
My beloved and I have been married 29 years today. We met on AOL, long long ago.
I still don't have a firm grasp on how this time thing works.