Comments on: What to write? [BUMPED UP: scroll down for newer posts] https://thenewneo.com/2023/01/28/what-to-write/ A blog about political change, among other things Tue, 31 Jan 2023 12:49:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: om https://thenewneo.com/2023/01/28/what-to-write/#comment-2664224 Tue, 31 Jan 2023 12:49:00 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=123809#comment-2664224 artldgr:

You’ve been missed, but I’m gladdened to hear from you again, even if a bit shorter (loss of “f”). artful dodger.

]]> By: AesopFan https://thenewneo.com/2023/01/28/what-to-write/#comment-2664182 Tue, 31 Jan 2023 08:50:16 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=123809#comment-2664182 @ artldgr > ** waves hello ** – you have been missed!

]]> By: Jaynie https://thenewneo.com/2023/01/28/what-to-write/#comment-2664098 Mon, 30 Jan 2023 23:16:19 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=123809#comment-2664098 Condolences on your loss.

Both of you have enormous talent and generosity to write so in depth so regularly.

It is a dazzling bit of news to discover your and his relationship. Uplifting, charming, romantic news in a time of sorrow and dismay.

DisGuested at 5:33 on 1/28/23 said it wonderfully.

You both have given great things to the world.

]]> By: Tom Grey https://thenewneo.com/2023/01/28/what-to-write/#comment-2664047 Mon, 30 Jan 2023 19:30:41 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=123809#comment-2664047 Thanks also for fine photo, Neo.
“Preserve your memories,
They’re all that’s left you.”

]]> By: artldgr https://thenewneo.com/2023/01/28/what-to-write/#comment-2664034 Mon, 30 Jan 2023 16:47:14 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=123809#comment-2664034 The penalty for being out of touch is the wave of shocks you must endure to catch up.. some more than others… Gerards is a big one on top of a bunch of recent big ones… more than 5 in the past YTD

]]> By: Hubert https://thenewneo.com/2023/01/28/what-to-write/#comment-2664016 Mon, 30 Jan 2023 14:28:28 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=123809#comment-2664016 I remembered reading a poem in Polish about a cat whose owner has died, written from the cat’s point of view. Thanks to the magic of Web search, I found it.

Wislawa Szymborska, “Cat in an Empty Apartment” (translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh)

Die — you can’t do that to a cat.
Since what can a cat do
in an empty apartment?
Climb the walls?
Rub up against the furniture?
Nothing seems different here
but nothing is the same.
Nothing’s been moved
but there’s more space.
And at nighttime no lamps are lit.

Footsteps on the staircase,
but they’re new ones.
The hand that puts fish on the saucer
has changed, too.

Something doesn’t start
at its usual time.
Something doesn’t happen
as it should.
Someone was always, always here,
then suddenly disappeared
and stubbornly stays disappeared.

Every closet’s been examined.
Every shelf has been explored.
Excavations under the carpet turned up nothing.
A commandment was even broken:
papers scattered everywhere.
What remains to be done.

Just sleep and wait.
Just wait till he turns up,
just let him show his face.
Will he ever get a lesson
on what not to do to a cat.
Sidle toward him
as if unwilling
and ever so slow
on visibly offended paws,
and no leaps or squeals at least to start.

(http://www.wordslikethis.com.au/cat-in-an-empty-apartment/; also in Polish and English at https://readingearth.blog/56-2/)

]]> By: LadyBikki https://thenewneo.com/2023/01/28/what-to-write/#comment-2664009 Mon, 30 Jan 2023 12:19:10 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=123809#comment-2664009 I’ve shared at MOTUS that Olive is looking for a new human.
I’m in northern Maine, have two Maine Coons and an obnoxious adolescent GSD and I’d offer her a home but between the weather and the current furry residents, I doubt Olive would be happy here.
I hope you don’t mind.
MOTUS shared that Gerard was an early mentor when she started blogging and he encouraged her on a regular basis.
There are many regular readers of AD there who love felines and quite a few on the west coast,

]]> By: TJ https://thenewneo.com/2023/01/28/what-to-write/#comment-2663970 Mon, 30 Jan 2023 01:05:47 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=123809#comment-2663970 (DAMIT! All musty-eyed, my PS to the above rolled off my fingers too late to post.)
PS. The one thing missing and yet too important to to mention is Women’s importance in burning the New Weaker Sex.

I think recognising this heroism to memorialising men’s lives is ancient — yet the mass unrecognised duty by performed women is something different and ongoing for our time, in this young century. It’s a growing phenomenon and social rite, as well as humbling responsibility.

There is both need and opportunity to write more about this Truth. It’s inescapable. It’s real. For you, it’s NOW. For the unprepared, your wisdom may be Golden to others.

]]> By: neo https://thenewneo.com/2023/01/28/what-to-write/#comment-2663969 Mon, 30 Jan 2023 01:03:29 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=123809#comment-2663969 Hubert:

Wonderful story of the cats and their people.

]]> By: TJ https://thenewneo.com/2023/01/28/what-to-write/#comment-2663967 Mon, 30 Jan 2023 00:53:12 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=123809#comment-2663967 How about a recurring theme, comparing book-length critiques of SJW/CRT/Wokism?

There are over a dozen published now, and some I’ve overlooks, or even specialised, eg Helen Joyce on trans wackiness.

A sort of consumers guide reviews? Later, to be synthesised into a longer opus, or otherwise more comprehensive form — for sharing and help to educate the naive or unwary or just plane curious.

In any case, because of rich funding for propagandists, as well as government funding thru our corrupt ane evil K-12 plus system, this issue ain’t going away soon.

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