Susan Pigman 📚

Avid reader, dog walker, and occasional poet. "It is not every one," said Elinor, "who has your passion for dead leaves." Jane Austen

[Sam Adams Sneppy @SamSneppy19862]

🩶 Senior cats deserve love stories too… and Indy is hoping hers is next. 🩶

At 10 years old, Indy recently lost the only life she had ever known.

Her elderly owner was suddenly forced to move into a no-pet household after becoming widowed, and heartbreakingly, there was nowhere for Indy to go. No family able to help. No friends able to take her in.

So now this sweet senior girl finds herself at Homeward Bound Cat Adoptions, trying to understand why everything changed. 💔

And honestly? Senior cats like Indy need homes more than ever.

Because while kittens get endless attention, older cats are so often overlooked… despite being some of the BEST companions you could ever ask for.

She is the definition of a gentle soul. She can be shy at first and may greet you with a tiny hiss while she figures you out (honestly relatable), but once she trusts you? She becomes an affectionate little love bug who enjoys snuggles, conversation, and simply being near her people.

What Indy needs now is simple:
A loving home and someone willing to let her settle in and remember what safety feels like again.

Please help give Indy the peaceful loving home she deserves. Senior cats still have so much love left to give. 🩶🐾

Meet her at Homeward Bound Cat Adoptions in Las Vegas, Nevada.
https://t.co/LgCalg5Ga8

[Jake Tapper 🦅 @jaketapper]

NYT: A major flu outbreak has sickened nearly 160 troops at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas weeks after Defense Secretary Hegseth announced that U.S. troops would no longer be required to be vaccinated for the flu, defense officials said.

https://t.co/fFIt8Mhyzg

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

you are correct! I can't think how many times I am asked in interviews "what is your favorite novel?"--"who is your favorite writer?"--"favorite movie?" it is wearying to have to explain for the thousandth time that over a lifetime, or over just a few years, we have many favorites & it is absurd to select just one. especially since no one has any intention of more than glancing at our list & forgetting it.

[Susan Pigman 📚 @1SusyQ]

@hairygit But isn’t that money/wealth also an objective, material reality? The collectibles at Poynton? The papers of Jeffrey Aspern? For me as a reader, they have a reality/substance, although James’ description of their specifics are often as you say nonexistent.

[Susan Pigman 📚 @1SusyQ]

@hairygit I agree he’s not focussed on those details, usually, except to joke about them in “The Ambassadors;” however, James indicted the corrosive effect of money on human affairs /actions many times, i.e., “The Wings of the Dove,” “What Maisie Knew,” etc. The money is there.

[হিমাদ্রি চ্যাটার্জী Himadri Chatterjee @hairygit]

As we get overwhelmed with horrors from around the world, genuinely good news tends to get buried.

[Susan Pigman 📚 @1SusyQ]

@kaeser_richard I’m so sorry. May his memory be a blessing.

[Susan Pigman 📚 @1SusyQ]

@hairygit I agree he’s focussed on nuances, but I dunno if I’d say he’s not interested in objective realities. In the late James I’ve read, there is always some objective, materialistic reality underlying the story and his moral sense. Sometimes it’s money.

[Matt Ryan #CanonChat 📕: Steinbeck's East of Eden @MatRyanELATeach]

Has anyone mentioned Frederick Douglass?

[Simon Knott @SimoninSuffolk]

Just got my tickets for the Bayeux Tapestry at the BM. I didn't bother when booking opened yesterday, people reported the site crashing and three hour waits! Overnight the BM has designed an entirely new interface, and it took just 30 seconds to book two tickets. Looking forward to it!

[BurlHorniachek @BurlHorniachek]

“Mystery, Explained” by JD Smith (@smitroverse). From Catalogs for Food Lovers (@bookskelsay, 2021).

[BurlHorniachek @BurlHorniachek]

The short answer is no. Anne of Green Gables and The Handmaid’s Tale are the best known, and are both good, but not “blow me away” good. My own favourites would be Fifth Business or The Rebel Angels by Robertson Davies, but not sure they measure up to Moby Dick or Huck Finn.

[Daniel Cowper @DanielCowper]

You can still buy the original issue of Everymans; they aren’t expensive, they’ll last forever, and look like this. Oh, and sometimes you find old stamps in them to use as bookmarks.

[Susan Pigman 📚 @1SusyQ]

@scarylawyerguy Pretty ridiculous to express a verdict 18 months after the end of his administration.

[David Benedict 🏳️‍🌈🕎 @eggsbened]

Nightmare for a friend of mine.
Please share.

[BabelColour @StuartHumphryes]

I've cleaned-up & enhanced this rather gorgeous Autochrome portrait, taken around 1920 by the American-German photographer Arnold Genthe (1869-1942). I do not know the sitter, but it is a very arresting portrait and I do love the choice of emerald palette! It was taken using an early colour glass-plate process and isn't colourised.

[Susan Pigman 📚 @1SusyQ]

@PeterLeyland12 @IngCarlberg It was a sad start to the day

[f. @fortuneakande]

Louise Glück

[Reid Southen @Rahll]

Using high quality, stolen ingredients doesn't mean you know how to cook.

[Amelia @amelia_tweetz]

I was told today by a 17-year-old that there was no way people were writing 10 page papers without Al.

Dude, I was writing 10 page papers without having read the book.