These are the times that try human souls.
I know that’s not how Thomas Paine said it – he wrote “men’s souls” of course. That’s usually excused by the explanation that “men” used that way includes all of us, but – not to disrespect Paine, who was a force for good in the Revolution – it really means that no one considered the thoughts, or even the souls, of women important.
At the moment, I am angry and depressed over the murder of a woman by an agent of an over-funded federal police agency that shouldn’t even exist, by the various actions against the people of Venezuela, by the way surveillance tech is creeping into all of our lives, and by the efforts (and not just by the regime controlling our federal government, but by local utilities) to slow walk renewable energy and keep polluting.
That’s just the short list for this morning. There are many other things I’m mad about.
However, I interrupt this listing of horrors for an important announcement:
We got cats!
Meet Shadow (female dark gray) and Piper (male gray tabby), our new beloved and chaotic housemates.
