I’ve had plenty on my mind since I last blogged an entry here but have busied myself with other things, physical work and continued artistic pursuits mixed in with smoking some mellow grass in the evenings gifted to me and reminding me of the old days, to avoid writing about any of it. However, a tweet authored by @fugioutliberem regarding the ghastly and newly enacted surgical castration law in Louisiana stirred a certain sort of emotion within me this morning related to an incident from my adolescence I have been thinking about recently-
Her phrasing of “cowards and reality deniers who isolate truth tellers” resonated with me so much I finally cried about this memory this morning. It’s been a long time coming and it felt necessary. Isolated as I may be for taking on many challenges in my life in pursuit of justice, I count my blessings, and always think forward to the next I can affect in some way. My little-big cat, the innocent little soul she is, huddled close as I shed some tears, then she relaxed on one of her many loungers as I read some more chapters of 2666 aloud to her. (Though after reading one sentence that spanned four pages, I now recall why I failed to finish it the last two times I cracked it open. I tried to move on to some of Chekhov’s short stories, but she is not interested. I really think she likes epically long stories better. But anyway.)
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