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Tag: cats

in the beginning…

Posted on 18 April 2022 by erin

For anyone steeped in Kabbalah, familiar active letters dart into new cosmologies. For anyone steeped in cosmology, the antics of those letters introduce fresh questions about the world. For everyone else, and probably for those mystics and seers too, Malkah’s Notebook will offer nested challenges, like so many matryoshka dolls, ornately painted mysteries lurking inside mysteries lurking inside mysteries. As much is written between the letters and in the spaces inside the letters as in the letters themselves.

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kaddish for anke akevit (2015-20)

Posted on 6 July 20206 July 2020 by erin

Rest in peace, sweet Anke Akevit. You were a sweet cat.

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a kaddish for sigrid syltetøy vang, b. 2006, d. 27 February 2018

Posted on 27 February 201828 February 2018 by erin

Sigrid was sweet, fun, goofy, curious; all the usual cat things. Silky and beautiful. By far the most beautiful cat I have ever known.

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daily kaddish: for Xena

Posted on 18 November 201128 November 2011 by erin

Tonight’s Kaddish is for my friends Eric and Jody’s beloved cat Xena, a beautiful tortoiseshell who had to be put down after she began losing the battle with lung cancer.

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daily kaddish: for a kitty

Posted on 19 August 201121 August 2011 by erin

Somebody’s cat had died. I can’t remember whose. I’m appalled.

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daily kaddish: for all our pets

Posted on 4 August 20117 August 2011 by erin

I’ve been thinking about departed critters a lot lately, because I’ve been at the vet a lot lately.

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daily kaddish: for lyra

Posted on 26 June 20119 February 2016 by erin

A modest Kaddish for a modest cat. Lyra, may you rest in peace.

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daily kaddish: a kaddish for mr. one-paw

Posted on 15 December 201023 March 2011 by david

It’s a lesson I have to relearn each time: the hardest thing is the sudden deprivation of rituals. This is the last time Fuller will ever be on my lap. Friday was the last time Fuller played with his favorite catnip mouse. One minute he’s here, the next he’s gone.

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