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Bad week. I mean, really not a good week. It had its bright points -- most bad weeks do -- a common thread of love, friendship, and care. And grief is lessened by being shared. It was still a bad week.

Thursday our dear old-lady-cat Ticia crossed the Rainbow Bridge. There will be a full post in a day or three. Meanwhile if you're triggered by such things you'll want to skip over 0611Th. And maybe Wednesday and Friday.

Not a totally lost week, though; I got in five walks (missing Wednesday and Thursday -- see above), and wrote a Songs for Saturday post, along with my usual Thankful Thursday.

Linkies: Ukraine and Moldova on course to start formal EU membership talks in JuneSailing Alone Around the World, by Joshua Slocum - Standard Ebooks Disordered, Deficient, Dehumanized: How the Language of Aphantasia Research Shapes What We Think About It (more on Friday),

‘Happiness is not just about GDP’: ambitious plan or utopia? (More, including the whole report, on Saturday. Up to you to decide how it compares as Utopian fiction to The World As it Ought To Be, by Naomi Rivkis, which is the subject of a Goodreads ebook giveaway, and also on sale for $2.99 until the end of this month.)

Rage-inducing: DOD Officially Drops 180 Faiths From Military's Recognized Religion List

See you later this week.

( Notes & links, as usual. CW: pet death )