Wednesday

[monk222]

Denzel Washington: "If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you do read it, you're misinformed." [The Hill ... ... The rain hasn't resumed, but the sun hasn't come out today either, which is making me feel doubtful about letting the cats out this afternoon. We really needed a little toasting today to burn away some of that marshy feeling. ... ... I let the cats go. I also had to tap into my carpentry acumen. A corner-board of our fence is missing now. I took a loose board and jammed it in and stuck the mini-barbecue grill against it. ... ... Ash has come back inside within 20 minutes of being let out, and she apparently prefers to stay. Which is great. But it doesn't seem very cat-like. I tell her, "You were tearing up the furniture earlier. I'd much rather you tear up that tree outside." She only turns back to looking out the window. Now that is very cat-like. ... ... A tweet of liberal pessimism for the dawning Trump era by Xeni Jardin: "Ever wonder what it'd be like to go back in time and help fight nazis? Support Civil Rights Era? Resist Native genocide? Now's your chance." ... ... Lucretius: "For so long as we lack what we desire, it seems to us to surpass everything in value; but when it is acquired, it at once appears like something different; and a similar longing always holds us fast, as we thirst and hanker after life." [The World as Will and Representation, tr. Payne]