Sentient and Loving

December 10 is International Animal Rights Day.

"International Animal Rights Day is an annual event honoring animals as sentient beings who deserve the same protections as people. 

This global observance is marked by demonstrations that expose animal exploitation, mourn the animal victims of human tyranny, and rally support for universal animal welfare."

Learn more here.

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December 10, 2023 is a Gotchaversary of sorts:

Celestial Paddy O'Malley inked on my right arm!

Today is another tattoo day, as I've scheduled two new designs, and yes, there are cat images involved.

Will provide pics after the healing process.

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Walkin' and Readin'

Recommended audiobook listens:

Val McDermid's The Grave Tattoo

A psychological Lake District thriller in which a present-day murder has its roots in the eighteenth century and the mutiny on the H.M.S. Bounty.

Michael John Witgen's Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America

Against long odds, the Anishinaabeg resisted removal, retaining much of their land in the Old Northwest—what’s now Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.  Outnumbering white settlers well into the nineteenth century, they leveraged their political savvy to advance a dual citizenship that enabled mixed-race tribal members to lay claim to a place in US civil society. 

Dete Meserve's The Memory Collectors

Four strangers time travel to the past, to find themselves stuck on the day all their lives were changed.

Can history be rewritten?

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Let's Hop, even if very wordy...

Not Easy

It's Twozday!

Manny and Chili Bruce are simply the bestest kitties on the planet, paws down.

It's mind-blowing that they've been with us for eight years now, and I never tire of snapping pics to show off their handsomeness.

Except, due to operator ineptitude, getting really clear images of both of them in one shot is not easy.

I try in sunshine, with different backgrounds, and using every setting I can think of.

Often, one cat is in purrfect focus, when the other is a tad blurry.

There is no quit in this cat mama, so my photo library will continue to be expand with Da Boyz images; you've been warned!

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A bit off kilter, yet I like that each has a different pose.

Up close with Manny; the lack of eyebrows is a dead giveaway to identification.

Chili Bruce, our Brown Bear, gets browner with the hot pink of the Pink Blue* chair.

*It's an old chair, with blue fabric and all wood is painted blue.

A bright pink-colored blankie mostly hides the clawed upholstery, thus the title of Pink Blue.

Didn't ever say we are totally rational 'round here...

Let's Hop!

December Ussies

It's PO'Monday!

December, 2016 was a very cuddly time of year for Celestial Paddy O'Malley and me.

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Looks like he's had enough in this last photo; he's stuck his tongue out!

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