Joyce Carol Oates Ahhhhhh, SPRING, even where it's still very chilly.

Pianists @ATharaud and Víkingur Ólafsson bring whimsy and verve to Edvard Grieg's ever-popular fourth Norwegian Dance in the latest release from Tharaud’s forthcoming Four Hands duet album.

🎧 w.lnk.to/4handsTW

agree that the possibilities of abuse--coercion--exploitation of the vulnerable--are very real; yet, as tradition has had it, bound by pieties of religion, there has certainly been horrific abuse in keeping suffering persons alive to no purpose except 'the will of God.'

'I'm dying, you're not': Those terminally ill ask more states to legalize physician-assisted death apnews.com/article/medica…

(literary criticism can be coyly obscure under the best of circumstances but here, there would seem to be a basic misconception: 'Oates' is not a plural of 'Oat' & there is only a single author, not 'the authors.' 'Jamesian' doesn't refer to Henry but to lesser-known Frederic.)

Joyce Carol Oates Found these lovely trees (bushes?) from our Four Corners tour. Chimayo, New Mexico.

You have made me unhappy, by Letters of Note open.substack.com/pub/lettersofn…

Joyce Carol Oates Zanche is smart. I suspect she descends from Mahalaleel.

A Principal Confronted a Teenage Girl. Now He’s Facing Prison Time. nytimes.com/2024/04/11/nyr…

Night photo of two kitties who refuse to come in out of the rain…. What are they doing? Both soaked through.

Oops! forgot to credit the photographer: Henri Cole.

Joyce Carol Oates I hate this issue so much. Highest gun ownership rate in the world. We also glorify violence, which doesn’t help. Australia confiscated all its guns after the 1996 mass shooting in Tasmania. Look at the number of gun deaths there now.

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Joyce Carol Oates Fair point.
Over things that don’t really matter why stoke yet another conflict.
We certainly have no shortage of that.
There are those that have found a “wellness” to radicalization pipeline.
From crystals to horoscopes to anti vax nuttiness.

Joyce Carol Oates people like that are the only people here

Born under the sign of Capricorn, Zanche has always taken for granted that she is a natural carnivore & since she cannot help it feels no remorse for anything, ever. the pious admonition “do better” is baffling to this pretty kitty!

Well. It was interesting. Just seems important right now that people otherwise strangers agree on something however trivial. Things seem to quickly escalate & it’s not worth debating. Just tiptoe away.

half the sofa appears to be in eclipse, or contiguous with a black hole; or a creature is emerging out of darkness of indeterminate shape. apart from that, very attractive plush sofa.