After 3 years of despairing that our cats will ever mate (we forgot to give our tom the manual on how to…), Snickers (multi-tone female persian) finally started waddling around with a litter. Unfortunately, she dropped four kittens at the same time, and only one of the first 4 survived. But she went on to [...]
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The mass and majesty of this world, all
That carries weight and always weighs the same
Lay in the hands of others; they were small
And could not hope for help and no help came:
What their foes like to do was done, their shame
Was all the worst could wish; they lost their pride
And died as men before their bodies died.
excerpt from The Shield of Achilles
by W. H. Auden