The Year -- where did it go?

Hmmmm. Anyone checking here as I write this will think I either fell off my corner of the world or am leading a very boring life. Well, maybe I will update this is sections, retroactively, but in the meantime, dear friends, if you are curious and/or eager for a Kate Anne Update, look at my photos sets on Flickr.com. I've been a busy activist and busy at work (not necessarily in that order). It has been a change year with friends departing -- dear Shirley Marcus in July -- and others leaving NYC. But am back in Ohio for Christmas thanks to a lovely speedy Greyhound overnight trip which was blessed by a friendly conversation with Margaret, a Russian pianist who teaches at the Nyack school in NYC, and was coming to Cleveland to visit her husband who teaches here.

But I have a few Christmas cards with me and will send out a few -- others will get New Years notes, Valentines, and/or Easter/spring cards, with any luck and with help from the post office. In the meantime, the best to you and yours, with blessings and love and all good things in abundance. Hugs!!

Tourist: Love the Library

I actually played tourist sans Kat today. After church I had brunch with friends at Bliss St. Station then went into Manhattan to drop off some library books at the Mid-town branch of the NYC library of 5th Ave & 40th and pay some fines from when I forgot to renew online in time ($14.50 -- but a good cause -- looking on the bright side :) then I stopped at the nearby research library [once the "main branch" officially now the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building] where the Library lions Patience and Fortitude hold court, saw the CoExist exhibit on the 3 Abrahamic religions, and then proceeded to explore the recently restored building: gorgeous, complete with WPA paints in the 3rd floor McGraw Rotunda and in 20+ years of living here I have never made it past the first floor. They have a Wi-Fi reading room where these great paintings grace the walls (mostly of famous New Yorkers) plus there was a Radioactive exhibit of Pierre and Marie Curie. Awesome! I more than got my fine back -- all this with lugging around a few new books so I got exercise too :) Lovely day AND I have tomorrow off.

Library Lion

The Kitties

On the BlueRootsRadio.com blog [Great music also there -- click little blue radio], I just posted this in Cat Chew's teh Kitteh section. Since I love my kittehs and need to catch up here, I am cross-posting.

Are we confessing our kittehs? With the demise of my late great cat Mac a/k/a MacTangelo a rescue who I was blessed with the same day as my first Mac computer back in 1994, I am down to two, Wilbur and Bootsie a/k/a Boots. Wilbur is mostly white with a few orange splotches by his ears and an orange tail and prone to occasional love bites. (HE came into my life when my late great Ohio cat Danny / Daniel left the earth plane. Wilbur was the name of my mother's first love -- human not a cat -- but I also had a beloved cat Lucy Stone litter mate to Susan B. Anthony [these were my "divorce cats" -- another story for later] who my mother Lucy felt was really named after her. Adopting Wilbur seemed apt. ) Bootsie, fyi, is a loving tuxedo rescue (natch) and he is demanding food NOW so he is particularly loving.

Photos of some cats who have touched my life:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kateannenyc/tags/cats/

All this sharing about kittehs, fortunately my password protection questions do not feature these great furry feline friends. I will NOT be telling you the name of my first pet (a doggie btw).

Must feed kittehs and be off to work. Hugs!