In the canine category of my annoyance, I know it serves me right for scrolling through TikTok in the morning, but TikTok somehow saw fit to serve up this thing that I know some people must love but it's exactly the sort of thing I loathe:
If you want to give me a dog poem, give me this:@goosielouu Little Dog’s Rhapsody in the Night by Mary Oliver. 🐶🐱🧡 One of my absolute favorites. (Background song: intro of End of August by Noah Kahan.) #maryoliver #poetry #thoughtdaughter #poetrytok #noahkahan ♬ original sound - goosielouu
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The grand old Duke Of York
Had 1000 names
For pups he met from day to day
But none of them was James
You’ll love this one:
The Power of the Dog
Rudyard Kipling
1865 –1936
There is sorrow enough in the natural way
From men and women to fill our day;
And when we are certain of sorrow in store,
Why do we always arrange for more?
Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware
Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.
Buy a pup and your money will buy
Love unflinching that cannot lie—
Perfect passion and worship fed
By a kick in the ribs or a pat on the head.
Nevertheless it is hardly fair
To risk your heart for a dog to tear.
When the fourteen years which Nature permits
Are closing in asthma, or tumour, or fits,
And the vet’s unspoken prescription runs
To lethal chambers or loaded guns,
Then you will find—it’s your own affair—
But… you’ve given your heart to a dog to tear.
When the body that lived at your single will,
With its whimper of welcome, is stilled (how still!).
When the spirit that answered your every mood
Is gone—wherever it goes—for good,
You will discover how much you care,
And will give your heart to a dog to tear.
We’ve sorrow enough in the natural way,
When it comes to burying Christian clay.
Our loves are not given, but only lent,
At compound interest of cent per cent.
Though it is not always the case, I believe,
That the longer we’ve kept ’em, the more do we grieve:
For, when debts are payable, right or wrong,
A short-time loan is as bad as a long—
So why in—Heaven (before we are there)
Should we give our hearts to a dog to tear?
I don't hate the motif, but it also doesn't give me a dopamine rush. Too saccharine for me. The company of cats and dogs though, that's special. Especially when walking through the woods.
There's much conflict over the history the museum wants and the history the White House wants, but can't we all agree on fluffy kittens?
How much control does the museum have over the magazine though? It may just earn money for them and they may just take it, no questions asked or orders given.
YouTube: Why artists like cats
"You can spend an entire day making something terrible and then there's just this cat nearby, sleeping, stretching, blinking slowly at you as if to remind you perhaps none of this actually matters, which is sometimes exactly what you need to be reminded of."
I get all warm and fuzzy when I watch African wild dogs ripping apart a live eland, run to exhaustion.
The Magellan Wildest channel rules.
Thanks for the Kipling, Smilin' Jack. Only someone who loved dogs (as Kipling did) could have written that.
Smithsonian was just going for clicks. They came for the Cats-LOL, they stayed for the diffusion of knowledge.
“I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"
Death thought about it.
CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.”
― Terry Pratchett, Sourcery
I agree, cats are nice. I liked the bobcat kitten. And the Pallas kittens. The others were okay, but I think I can find more interesting photos of non-Smithsonian-curated kittens on the various social media platforms.
"My heart is not warmed (by kittens)"
Fun at parties, etc.
Would it break the ice if they were gay kitties?
So the theme today is crankiness?
“Back home, we found that in the night her frame,
Drawing near to dissolution, had endured the shame
Of diarrhea and had dragged across the floor
To a newspaper carelessly left there. Good dog.”
— John Updike
"Richard Nixon famously saved his political career in 1952 by talking about a little cocker spaniel named Checkers. Don't underestimate the power of a pooch."
https://youtu.be/QJGlk1ybdEA?is=94vH2fzxPgpNIr2P
The trouble with a kitten
Is that
Eventually it becomes
A cat.
Meade, a favorite ode to dog song from some years ago. https://youtu.be/ET8b7QD79gE?si=1fuXUAsSjv6Q9nHe
Great song, michaele. Thanks. Pooches do love being sung to. (Also: Calling All Angel [Dogs].)
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