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Winter crawls out of the woods
and swallows the town. Shrews slip back
to the woodpile. The road
slides downhill. Black and white tiles
embrace on the kitchen floor.
Coffee thickens in the pot
while lunch congeals on the plate.
The planet turns through crowded space.
Dust drifts under the door.The dog dozes while the cat
dreams of eating it, one black paw
at a time. Darkness rubs
my bedroom window. The quilt
exhales cedar and mothballs.
In my afternoon dreams, I
ride a rolling ball through star-
cluttered skies. Bears climb to their dens.
My sheets pile up like snow.
Continue reading "While Napping in Alaska
on a Sunday in October" »
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Are you a new reader? Arrived directly from the New York Times, perhaps?
Welcome! I hope you will take some time to explore a bit.
Below, you will find many cat-blogging posts; here you will find links to other cat sites, and here you will find poems, politics, play, and much else.
Today we are going to explore our Inner Halloween:
You Are a Little Scary |
![]() You've got a nice edge to you. Use it. |
And just a few more:
This fabulous photograph is from Fragments From Floyd, via Via Negativa.
. . . And out of that mundane chore of autumn, in this world of orange and ochre, in that cool, safe space under the flat roof of rock where it would have spent its anonymous days fattening on spiders before winter, a newly-hatched Smooth Green Snake lay coiled in an emerald knot. . .
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Two weeks ago, I received a message that a reporter from the New York Times wanted to speak to me about my blog.
Was he interested in my fine, sensitive poems? Or perhaps my incisive political commentary?
No.
He was interested in Friday Cat Blogging.
The article is here. Yes, it requires registration -- but you can always make something up, and besides, it's cats.
I think the reporter, Daniel Terdiman (who also writes for Wired News) did a good job (though I have been blogging for ten months, not three) stressing what is most important to me about Friday Cat Blogging: that it brings together folks from all around the web who otherwise would not connect. And, of course, it offers a little relief from what has lately been a heavy dose of seriousness.
I hope those of you who are visiting from the Times will take a minute to visit my main page. There is much more than cats on offer here, including poems, politics, and other minor matters. If you came just for the cats, you will find many cat links here.
[Crossposted to Big Sky Blog]
You travel far to lose yourself
in strangeness. You watch a man
gutting a turtle into the street.
Hills fade in the distance.I stay in my house by the river.
Aspens are losing their yellow
hair. Today I found a wounded
bird perched in the brittle garden.You are learning the Chinese way.
One does not speak of such matters.
Evenings and mornings are cold,
sky washed with glorious colors.Fog lifts from my river at dawn.
Frost embraces every surface.
Birches, drying into autumn,
rattle and bend with the wind.You eat rice and sip green tea.
You wander crowded alleyways,
carrying with you the pale
alien you now know you are.I drink Italian coffee with cream.
The moon is chipped in an open sky.
A slow walk on a dark night, beaver
slamming its tail on the water.Soon snow will come to us both.
You send for warmer clothes.
I tighten the shutters, and sleep
with the dogs.
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A couple of weeks ago, I tried to imagine myself (unsuccessfully) into the mind of a Bush voter. I realize that someone who holds to the religious belief that abortion is murder is unlikely to vote for a pro-choice candidate. I also realize (though not without difficulty) that there is some evangelical portion of the voting public that believes their god has endorsed Bush for president. It would be a challenge indeed to counter this kind of belief.
But what of the others? The Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) has done a study on The Separate Realities of Bush and Kerry Supporters that has been widely referred to on the web.
I read it with stunned disbelief. (It's available in pdf here.) In brief, Kerry supporters are much more likely than Bush supporters to know what their candidate’s positions are on a variety of issues. Here is the summary (click for larger image):
I quote extensively from the Analysis below (all emphases mine):
. . . the current election is unique in that Bush supporters and Kerry supporters have profoundly different perceptions of reality. So why is this the case? And, more specifically, why are Bush supporters holding so tightly to beliefs that have been so visibly refuted? . . .
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Today's topic at the IT Kitchen is Collaboration. Go check it out.
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