Saturday Morning

Now the weather is fine and there are no medical appointments, and I even have bird feed, but I just do not feel like going on a walk. I can see that a big reason is that I am much freer in my reading life. If I kept the old rule that would have limited my reading of “The Man Who Loved Dogs” to my walk-reading, I would be hungry to go out.

Question: should I go back to that rule? It’s not like I am getting any real exercise from my walk. Besides, yesterday was a busy morning, running around and getting groceries. I’m sure I will feel like going on a walk sometimes, if only to get away from the house and enjoy some fresh air. Just not today.

Cats and Birds

Checking out the patio, I see a scattering of bird feathers nearby. A mess. But I am mainly concerned about the cats’ health. I’m with Pop: I think this is how Sammy came close to dying. I’ll clean it up after breakfast.

LJ

Only three posts on LJ overnight, and one of those was a syndicated feed. True, it was Friday night, but when even posts for ONTD become scarce, you know the show on LJ is just about over. I mean, completely over.

Bird Corpse

Bo’s pooper-scooper still has its uses. I go to pick up the bird corpse. I’ve been watching too much “Hannibal”: It looks like a serial-killer tableaux, with the bloody red exposure of chest and abdomen. Interestingly, it was not covered over in ants.

1792 Hamilton and Burr

Hamilton was not to afraid to make great enemies. Aside from Thomas Jefferson, there is Aaron Burr, in whom Hamilton seemed to espy the budding despot.

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“I fear [Burr] is unprincipled both as a public and a private man. When the constitution was in deliberation … his conduct was equivocal. … In fact, I take it he is for or against anything but as it suits his interest or ambition. He is determined, as I conceive, to make his way to be head of the popular party and to climb … to the highest honors of the state and as much higher as circumstances may permit…. I am mistaken if it be not his object to play the game of confusion and I feel it a religious duty to oppose his career.”

-- Alexander Hamilton, September 21, 1792, letters

[Source: Ron Chernow, “Alexander Hamilton”]

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Celebrities and Stuff

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Do you remember the kid who asked Miley to prom?? Get this…Miley couldn't go cuz of her "Bangerz Tour" so she SANG TO HIM ON STAGE!!!

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George Kennan

“The jealous and intolerant eye of the Kremlin can distinguish, in the end, only vassals and enemies, and the neighbors of Russia, if they do not wish to be one, must reconcile themselves to being the other.”

-- George Kennan

Sully spotlighted that quotation and it really does sound most apropos of the situation today in Ukraine. Kennan wrote it in 1944 anent Poland. The statement is taken from Fareed Zakaria's book review of The Kennan Diaries. I want to get down a few more quotations from those diaries.

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Lorie

Pop has a big date with Lorie. He cleans up the house again, and he also prepares a new batch of ice cubes. Remember what happened the last time he drank, I ventured to suggest that maybe he should only have a couple of beers, that in his old age he may not be able to handle his liquor as well as he used to. He did not get upset as I feared. He said he is only going to have a beer and a drink. I cannot help thinking, famous last words.

Cool Night

A cool night, not cold, but like fresh, early spring. I step outside to be with the cats. Only Coco and Ash are there, but Coco lets me pick her up and plant more kitty kisses on her pretty forehead. What I really wish, of course, is to be out with good friends - making life more real by virtue of sharing our lives. I still wonder sometimes how I could lose at life this badly.