Chicken Blog: A Cat's Help :: Two Hundred Fifty Seven

Monday, September 12, 2016

A Cat's Help :: Two Hundred Fifty Seven

When we have important notes to take, files to read, things to alphabetize, delicate, pressing matters that call for our undivided attention, we can always count on a cat to arrive on the scene, to lend a paw, and help. Now, thanks to Cairo, with some assistance from Geoff and Max, Max has a rehabilitated lap top, with emails, bells, whistles, and calendars all ready for Physics, Humanities, Calculus, and FaceTime with family... especially for FaceTime with family!

With Infinity More Monkeys, a picture a day.

2 comments:

Jennifer said...: Perfect -- all the things! A working lap top, great courses on tap, software ready for touching base with HQ.; September 15, 2016 at 3:07 AM
Natalie, the Chickenblogger said...: And remembering to breath?
(I was able to keep myself from crying when we dropped him off...
but the urge to throw-up is overwhelming.); September 19, 2016 at 10:03 AM

Chirp-Chirp-Chirp BirdHouse Notes

Rest In Power, Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

We mourn her passing, but we will not surrender our devotion to democracy. We must rise up, unite, and move forward. Register, and vote. Vote blue, down the ballot. Vote in every election, local, state, and federal. No one person will effect the progress we seek, reverse systems of racism, nor see justice done, so we must fill the seats, everywhere, with justice warriors, intelligent representatives, and we must speak out against tyranny, racism, inequity, and we must speak up for the environment, education, healthcare, and civil rights for all people.

September 19, 2020

Oh, yum! Maria got enrolled in a fourth class, and it's Culinary Arts. The choices were few, so she went with a favorite, and she is looking forward to repeating some recipes, and getting to complete the things that got COVID-cancelled last spring. And like I said, "Yum!" She is in the kitchen now, and I smell orange-cranberry scones baking! This is the end of week two, and she shared with me that "It's going well. All things considered, everything is ok." She held my hands, and her eyes and steady voice were assuring, certain.

September 4, 2020

8:27 am

What if we, and media, talked about the cause of violence, bias, racist acts, neglect, and abuse, as much as the victim? We talk about "Black problems," and without emphasizing the source of their problems, we miss the opportunity to showcase what and who are responsible, and we create an impression that BIPOC are perpetually victims, for some "inexplicable" reason.

I follow Lia Rose on Instagram, and she talks about this "dynamic that permeates all power imbalance, " and she includes these headlines to highlight how we could rephrase news to highlight causes with issues.

"Today White Institutions Murdered

Another Unarmed Black Man"

"Medical Bias is Killing Black Newborns"

"Heterosexuals Are Trying to Legislate Everyone Else's Bedrooms Again"

August 27, 2020