https://blue.feedland.org/?river=http://data.feedland.org/blue/feeds/Cat.xml Mon, 20 Jan 2025 20:02:55 GMT feedland v0.6.43 https://cyber.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html Mon, 20 Jan 2025 20:02:56 GMT http://rpc.rsscloud.io:5337/pleaseNotify Mon, January 20, 2025 3:02 PM EST <p>This is my first visit. I am struggling with the surrealism of this day. I know more than one thing can exist at the same time. I am living in the darkest day of our country and also sitting in a cat cafe smiling, grateful to remember that D.C. is not all there is. </p> <p>I have felt this way only a few times in my life, where there is a pall of darkness everywhere I look. Kennedy assassination, MLK assassination, Bobby Kennedy …once when I realized I was doomed to live a very dark existence while active duty military, once when my best friend died of aids in the 80s, the first Trump travesty. And now, today. </p> <p>Frankly I don’t understand the function of this blue.thread.center at all. I just know I am adrift, feel abandoned by the country I once almost died serving. I’m heartbroken, grieving, hopeless. </p> <p>So for now, I sit in a cat cafe in Tulsa Oklahoma, feeling so off center I might as well be on a lost tanker in the middle of a storm. </p> <p>Nothing lasts forever.Even th moment of complete darkness.</p> Mon, 20 Jan 2025 20:02:55 GMT https://blue.feedland.org/?item=788171 https://blue.feedland.org/?item=788171 This is my first visit. I am struggling with the surrealism of this day. I know more than one thing can exist at the same time. I am living in the darkest day of our country and also sitting in a cat cafe smiling, grateful to remember that D.C. is not all there is. I have felt this way only a few times in my life, where there is a pall of darkness everywhere I look. Kennedy assassination, MLK assassination, Bobby Kennedy …once when I realized I was doomed to live a very dark existence while active duty military, once when my best friend died of aids in the 80s, the first Trump travesty. And now, today. Frankly I don’t understand the function of this blue.thread.center at all. I just know I am adrift, feel abandoned by the country I once almost died serving. I’m heartbroken, grieving, hopeless. So for now, I sit in a cat cafe in Tulsa Oklahoma, feeling so off center I might as well be on a lost tanker in the middle of a storm. Nothing lasts forever.Even th moment of complete darkness.