Cathie Grimm

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The image of our former neighbor tossing (=dumping)the young cat we have named Zoey out into her front yard has etched itself into my admittedly pro cat biased brain. How can people feel ok doing this? Here’s a pic of Zoey who is the friendliest little love bug of a cat:

As we say in Ukraine, it would be funny if it weren’t so sad.

Grabbed the wrong one and now my mouth tastes like island vanilla. 😖😖😖😬😆😆😆

Reading Heidegger’s Being and Time brings to mind a quote from Novalis “Wir suchen überall das UnbeDINGTE und finden immer nur DINGE.”

In my zoom class i actually asked what we had to read for next week!!! The professor jokingly replied: Cathie didn’t you read the syllabus?!?!

THE MINUTE YOU LEARNED WHAT EPSTEIN WAS DOING WITH CHILDREN, YOU SHOULD HAVE LEFT AND NEVER GONE BACK. BUT YOU DIDN'T, YOU NOT ONLY STAYED BUT YOU CAME BACK AGAIN AND AGAIN. THERE WAS SOMETHING THERE THAT FASCINATED YOU AND KEPT YOU COMING BACK FOR MORE, YEAR AFTER YEAR..

This Common Yellowthroat was quite curious about the big oaf pointing its big glass eye at him. Tantramar, #NewBrunswick, Canada September 2026 📸 #birds #COYE #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor800pf

me eating a little snack in the fridge light at 2am:

My favorite office decor piece. Goethe overnighted in a lot of places and it gets commemorated with a plaque. He never made it to Ohio though, hence the sign. 😆😆😆

Our uni has a new center for the teaching, and research of AI. The director's name? CHEATham.

James Burke with one of the greatest pieces if timing in Television history as he turns, points, and Voyager 2 takes off from Cape Canaveral in August 1977.

Spot on per usual!

Things that I am the only person to say to myself: "Stop scrolling slime tik-toks and get back to reading Heidegger!" 😆😁😂

Free birthday flowers from Trader Joe’s: born 1963 and turned 63. 🥰🎉🥳

One very basic difference between Heidegger in German vs English is how noun and even compound noun heavy it all is. English turns these word lumps into prepositional phrases that causes them to loose some of their „uumph“ Seinsverständnis=understanding of Being #SeinundZeit #BeingandTime

Omg look at him!!! Such a cutie! 🥰

In #TheMagicMountain #DerZauberberg Drunk Peeperkorn, very appropriately imo calls Hans a "SchwätzerCHEN", but in my translation they just say "blabbermouth" leaving off the diminutive "chen" which both belittles but also softens the insult to sth akin to "LITTLE chatterer/windbag".

"The very fact that we already live in an understanding of Being and that the meaning of Being is still veiled in darkness proves that it is necessary in principle to raise this question again." Getting ready for my @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social seminar on Heidegger's #BeingandTime. #SeinundZeit

An Armadillo Arrives in … Ohio? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/u... Miami University in the news!

Just watched Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen, which was pretty good! Hugh Grant with a cockney? accent. Witty dialogue, good music, meta frame narrative.

“Blindlings, umhüllt von wirbelnder, weißer Nacht, arbeitete er sich nur tiefer ins Gleichgültig-Bedrohliche hinein.” (Schnee, #Zauberberg, #ThomasMann). Tja so leicht kann’s geschehen.

I love that the items Hans Castorp in the famous “Snow” section of Magic Mountain bought with him on his snow adventure are cigarettes, chocolate and port wine. 😆😆😆

Thanks to rereading The Magic Mountain I"ll never forget what St Catherine of Sienna supposedly did in regards to one of her leprosy patients. #MagicMountain #DerZauberberg

Did have to chuckle a bit when it is revealed that Castorps ancient seeming uncle James Tienappel is "about 40 years old". #MagicMountain

Am getting used to my first ever mac/Apple laptop. Different but sort of nice.

Unsurprising

Hmmm well I spent my first 5 years in the states in Western Mass, and before that in Germany and Australia. But the Midwest has been home since 1992. still cannot bring myself to say ant for aunt. 😁

Successful #hobonichi haul from 3 different places: yoseka, jetpens & the Hobonichi site. Too much money but hey it’s my hobby and brings me a lot of joy!

Really southwest Ohio, really? #realfeel

Just signed up for a Heidegger and a Thomas Bernhard class with The Brooklyn Institute for Social Research! Exciting retirement plans!!!

So actually the Bismarck Archipelago is a set of smaller islands off of actual Papua/Deutsch-Guinea.

TIL that New Guinea was a German colony called the Bismarck Archipelago und the end of the first World War when it was signed over to Australia via the League of Nations. Why yes I did find this out while reading The Magic Mountain. #ThomasMann #DerZauberberg #TheMagicMountain #Neumecklenburg

#OtD 26 Aug 1919 Fannie Sellins, former garment worker who became an organiser with the United Mine Workers of America, was killed by company thugs and sheriff's deputies during a Pennsylvania coal strike as she tried to stop a miner from being beaten stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9803...

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Again, if you owe a woman $5 million dollars for sexual assault, you also owe the country your resignation.

We recently tried our local and fairly new Waffle House and the most disappointing part of the meal was actually the waffle. (Not fluffy and didn’t taste great). The eggs were great.

I should go on a glp1 med but i really don’t want to loose my right now very good relationship with food. 😔😔😔