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I saw the world crashing all around your face
This afternoon my godchild's school was locked down because one of the students had a gun and the nineteenth and twentieth monarchs of the summer hatched. What am I supposed to say about the day itself? That I am reminded even without the martial canonization of a never-laid grief that nothing is easier to shovel under six feet of lime than memory? The last cousin of my grandparents' generation died earlier this week at nearly a century. The lines to the past snap fast enough, no one needs to hurry them along.
On that note, Andrew Kozma's "The Black Death" (2025). I like that Ulysses S. Grant is top of the list of historical characters Jared Harris wants to play, in part because of his civil rights commitments as president and as a counterweight to his negative figuration in the mythos of the Lost Cause. I need a door in the hall closet to BFI Southbank if they are going to keep doing inaccessibly tantalizing series like last year's complete Powell and Pressburger or, currently, Anna May Wong.
On that note, Andrew Kozma's "The Black Death" (2025). I like that Ulysses S. Grant is top of the list of historical characters Jared Harris wants to play, in part because of his civil rights commitments as president and as a counterweight to his negative figuration in the mythos of the Lost Cause. I need a door in the hall closet to BFI Southbank if they are going to keep doing inaccessibly tantalizing series like last year's complete Powell and Pressburger or, currently, Anna May Wong.
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My god that's awful. I am sorry for your godchild and all the children. (I am sorry *to* them.) I am glad you have small beauties to captivate the heart but I wish small beauties scaled better --
I mean they do, for the viewer, they can overtake everything, that's the point -- but I wish there was something to be made of them, or some larger social analogue.
Anyway I am glad the butterflies were thought of and planned for and now are.
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*hugs*
I wish they did, too. No one including the kid with the gun was hurt, but it's a silver lining to a cloud that should never form.
Anyway I am glad the butterflies were thought of and planned for and now are.
It's less planning than finding the eggs or the newly hatched caterpillars on the milkweed and bringing them inside to be nourished through their growth and metamorphosis, but they are one of the nicest parts of the summer and I hope they contribute to healthy migrations. We wish them safe journeys when they fly.