I saw many tearful ladies there in the crowd yesterday. I felt tearful, for so many reasons; loss was a big one. Cleopatra is certainly a cutie! I see a bit of mosaicism, mid-head. Thank you for getting her to safety 💙
How splendid - after the blood sport brutality on the WH lawn, on the Juneteenth eve, Obama’s Presidential Library (should be called “campus of return to hope) to the kind of audience that will keep Trump up all night smashing bottles of ketchup and venting his spleen on Lies Social - if he’s up to that level of exertion.
Right Carol? The timing was nothing short of miraculous, after that asinine bloodsport, leading up to G7, and happeing just before Juneteenth. Magical. I'm happy I'm not the only one who noticed. 🥰
I love feline instincts to claw at yarn, even displayed by tigers when presented with dangling rope.
Some of the kitsch I could have fun with: Paris has the Arche de Triomphe, DC the Arch d’Trump.
But what brings me to boil is the disenfranchisement of our Black sisters and brothers by gerrymandering in Tennessee and Alabama.
This Administration is guilty of serial murder through ICE— Keith Porter, Nicole Renee Good, Alex Pretti.
Grave war crimes by bombing of civilian, noncombatant hospitals and schools in Iran.
I will satirize the kitsch — McDonald Burgers at state dinners; Arche d’Trump.
But my outrage, my condemnation and broiling anger attacks ICE and military serial murders; disenfranchisement of precious Black Sisters and Brothers, persecution of Haitians, Somalis and untold millions of good immigrants.
America has sundry traditions.
One line traces through infection of First Nation Peoples with genocidal small pox and wars, hundreds of years of Black slavery perpetuated through genocidal lynchings across long enduring Jim Crow to today’s gerrymandering.
But we can live and take inspiration from: (1) The struggle for freedom from Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman via WEB DuBois and through the Civil Rights Movement of Dr Martin Luther King, Malcolm, Medgar Evers through Elijah Cummings and John Lewis (“Good Trouble”); and (2) The Trancendentalists of Concord (Emerson, Thoreau), the women of Amherst (Emily Dickinson) through our greatest statesman ever, Eleanor Roosevelt.
If only Americans knew — I could truly follow a great Eleanor Roosevelt Movement!
Thanks for another great piece. I've been wishing people a Thoughtful Juneteenth, since Happy doesn't quite fit. Yes, Happy that the news finally reached those enslaved Americans, but not Happy about the detestable withholding for three long years. So close are we to July 4th that I'd replace it with Juneteenth, but that's just me. So many Americans have a bloated, fun-house mirror delusion of our history, which has fueled much of the rage-turned-maga. American Exceptionalism is so stuffed with hubris!
Thanks for rescuing that cuteness of kittenness! Good for the soul and global peace. Good always wins...eventually, and only because of billions of small acts of love. 💗💕🤗🐾🐾
So well said, thank you! With time, Americans will become more familiar with Juneteenth & the full meaning behind it, and that's a very, very good thing.
A bit like Cleopartra in her new world with her new friend, being in Spain & where I'm located is very far removed from Juneteenth ... all the more reason I enjoyed reading & sharing with your article. Thanks, LoLo!
Yeayyyyyy! Great job Lorraine! I was actually thinking the same today as I read the Ukraine update and Trump's lack-of-interest AND the one hour birthday greeting from Putin, that Trump was again servicing our enemies; as Gorgia Meloni pointed out-Trumo treats the enemy better than the allies (I almost said friends but that word in its true meaning would be lonely in what's left of the WH! I love your kittens and they are such a joy! Today the group of sparrows I feed nearby were dumbfounded as they watched the local chipmunk eating up their rice with a passion, and quite tame as I through bread to the birds right beside him! Creation is quite the marvel!! Thanks for making my night again!!
I saw many tearful ladies there in the crowd yesterday. I felt tearful, for so many reasons; loss was a big one. Cleopatra is certainly a cutie! I see a bit of mosaicism, mid-head. Thank you for getting her to safety 💙
Me too, the ceremony was so moving and the cameras showed it with grace.
Re Cleopatra, I've been told she is a purrfect split face tortie. Quite special.
Re her name, I've been calling her Patty: Spicy Kitty > Cleopatra > Patra > Patty > Pepper Kitty > Peppermint Patty > Patty!!
She's definitely special, with such unusual markings. Split face 😃
All the loving names are charming!
How splendid - after the blood sport brutality on the WH lawn, on the Juneteenth eve, Obama’s Presidential Library (should be called “campus of return to hope) to the kind of audience that will keep Trump up all night smashing bottles of ketchup and venting his spleen on Lies Social - if he’s up to that level of exertion.
Right Carol? The timing was nothing short of miraculous, after that asinine bloodsport, leading up to G7, and happeing just before Juneteenth. Magical. I'm happy I'm not the only one who noticed. 🥰
Yes, from the gutter to the spire:)
Yesterday was the day that laughter came back to America.
Beautiful article, Lorraine.
That's so true BB! Joy returned in Chicago!
Look for an article from me in about two minutes about this very subject!
True, true and if our own rescue wouldn’t make a good faith effort to eat both of them I’d adopt them immediately.
LOL!! Seriously, I want to eat them both up too Patris!!
So gorgeous!
Lorraine Evanoff, Louise Moscow, Floofles and „Patty: Spicy Kitty > Cleopatra > Patra > Patty > Pepper Kitty > Peppermint Patty > Patty“!!
Kitty Heaven, indeed.
I love feline instincts to claw at yarn, even displayed by tigers when presented with dangling rope.
Some of the kitsch I could have fun with: Paris has the Arche de Triomphe, DC the Arch d’Trump.
But what brings me to boil is the disenfranchisement of our Black sisters and brothers by gerrymandering in Tennessee and Alabama.
This Administration is guilty of serial murder through ICE— Keith Porter, Nicole Renee Good, Alex Pretti.
Grave war crimes by bombing of civilian, noncombatant hospitals and schools in Iran.
I will satirize the kitsch — McDonald Burgers at state dinners; Arche d’Trump.
But my outrage, my condemnation and broiling anger attacks ICE and military serial murders; disenfranchisement of precious Black Sisters and Brothers, persecution of Haitians, Somalis and untold millions of good immigrants.
America has sundry traditions.
One line traces through infection of First Nation Peoples with genocidal small pox and wars, hundreds of years of Black slavery perpetuated through genocidal lynchings across long enduring Jim Crow to today’s gerrymandering.
But we can live and take inspiration from: (1) The struggle for freedom from Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman via WEB DuBois and through the Civil Rights Movement of Dr Martin Luther King, Malcolm, Medgar Evers through Elijah Cummings and John Lewis (“Good Trouble”); and (2) The Trancendentalists of Concord (Emerson, Thoreau), the women of Amherst (Emily Dickinson) through our greatest statesman ever, Eleanor Roosevelt.
If only Americans knew — I could truly follow a great Eleanor Roosevelt Movement!
Thanks for another great piece. I've been wishing people a Thoughtful Juneteenth, since Happy doesn't quite fit. Yes, Happy that the news finally reached those enslaved Americans, but not Happy about the detestable withholding for three long years. So close are we to July 4th that I'd replace it with Juneteenth, but that's just me. So many Americans have a bloated, fun-house mirror delusion of our history, which has fueled much of the rage-turned-maga. American Exceptionalism is so stuffed with hubris!
Thanks for rescuing that cuteness of kittenness! Good for the soul and global peace. Good always wins...eventually, and only because of billions of small acts of love. 💗💕🤗🐾🐾
She's a cutie!
So well said, thank you! With time, Americans will become more familiar with Juneteenth & the full meaning behind it, and that's a very, very good thing.
A bit like Cleopartra in her new world with her new friend, being in Spain & where I'm located is very far removed from Juneteenth ... all the more reason I enjoyed reading & sharing with your article. Thanks, LoLo!
Yeayyyyyy! Great job Lorraine! I was actually thinking the same today as I read the Ukraine update and Trump's lack-of-interest AND the one hour birthday greeting from Putin, that Trump was again servicing our enemies; as Gorgia Meloni pointed out-Trumo treats the enemy better than the allies (I almost said friends but that word in its true meaning would be lonely in what's left of the WH! I love your kittens and they are such a joy! Today the group of sparrows I feed nearby were dumbfounded as they watched the local chipmunk eating up their rice with a passion, and quite tame as I through bread to the birds right beside him! Creation is quite the marvel!! Thanks for making my night again!!