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Friday Cat Blogging

This is my last post in the Friday Cat Blogging category. The category page is getting much too long, and since it is graphics- intensive, it takes forever to load. 

But never fear -- this post also inaugurates the Friday Cat Blogging 2 category. From now on, I will try to do this every six months or so.

ADDENDUM January 9, 02005:  At the request of dial-up cat-blogging fans, I am breaking this category down still further, so there is now:

Friday Cat Blogging
Friday Cat Blogging 2
Friday Cat Blogging 3

I will go back in and reshuffle posts over the next few days; bear with me.

HAPPY NEW YEAR

The Garden This Morning

It's warm enough to snow again, a soft sparkly snow. I find I have little to say these days. It's not that I am preoccupied with the disaster -- on the contrary, as 120,000 people die on the other side of the globe, my life goes on as usual. It is this, I think, that preoccupies me. How is it possible? The cats and dogs go on demanding attention; I go on being warm and safe in my winter house; the television goes on offering me trivial distractions. And snow falls, and melts, and falls, and melts.

Snapshot 29 December 02004 - Tsunami

Montage-a-google|tsunami  via Chasing Daisy

It's beyond comprehension. Each morning, the number grows: 22,000; 44,000, 58,000, 76,000 --

This entire city, its booksellers, its bureaucrats, its shopkeepers, gone.  Homes, grocery stores, apartment buildings, libraries, swept away.  Its grandmothers, gardeners, carpenters, and all of its children, dead.  Bodies in the broken streets.

It's beyond imagining.

this morning
a dead sparrow
on the frozen ground

Breakfast

I'm taking the day off, but leaving you with a repeat of a readers' favorite [larger version here]