Laura Blegen

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Photo of a calico cat enjoying a sunbeam. She is both stretched out and twisted around so that her paws are on the sliding glass door and her head is upside-down, looking at the photographer.
Close up photo of a gray and white cat curled up in a human's lap. The human is wearing jeans, and the cat is half asleep with his eyes mostly closed.
Photo of a book, with the title. Flightless by Marie Parks. The cover art is rich with oranges and purples and shows the main character gliding through the sky with glide sheaths, a hood, and an eye patch.
Photo of a martini glass half full of pale yellow cocktail. There is a good froth on the top and a phone face down in the background
Photo of a calico cat, curled up on a lap and looking up at the human with intention. You can see the edge of a desk just beyond the lap, but the cat's intention is clearly to keep the human from getting any closer to the desk.
Photo of a gray and white cat stretched out long along a pair of human legs wearing jeans and propped up on an ottoman. In the distance, beyond the ottoman, a book is visible lying abandoned on a different chair.
Photo of a calico cat, sitting on a red tree skirt, with her head poked up past the lowest branch of an artificial Christmas tree. She is failing at looking innocent.
Photo of a white and gray cat posing demurely in a seated position. The end of his tale is curled perfectly in front of his front paws, and he is looking just off to the photographer's left, like he's posing for a portrait. He is sitting on a laptop, with a can of carpet cleaner in the background.
Close up photo of a very smooshable calico cat face, resting her sleepy head on my wrist.
Close up photo of a very smooshable calico cat face, resting her sleepy head on my wrist.
Photo of a calico cat, lying stomach-down on the raised knee of her favorite human, with one of her front paws curled to hold her in place. Her head is turned to look at the photographer with a stern expression, that says any activity other than petting her is just procrastination.
Photo of a gray and white cat, curled up a green laptop bag, looking woefully in the general direction of the camera.
Photo of two cats lounging on the lap of a person wearing jeans who has put their feet up. In the foreground, the calico has her heading resting on my stomach. In the background, a white and gray cat is stretched between my knees and feet.
Close-up photo of a gray and white cat napping with his front paw curled under his chin his back paws in front of his face, and his tail curled around in a circle. He has pink toe beans which match his little nose.
Photo of two cats sitting on a messy desk. The gray and white cat is between the photographer and the keyboard. The calico is between the keyboard and the monitor. Neither of them are looking at the photographer, because they are cranky and resentful.
Close up photo of a calico cat lying down on a black surface. She has one paw extended over a couple of fountain pens, the way a child might hold a stuffed animal.
Photo of a calico cat lying on her human's knee. Her front paws are wide and her gaze is vigilant.
Photo of a sleepy calico kitten napping on a stack of blue towels. She is looking at the photographer through half open eyes, during her to take those towels out from under her.
Photo of a green duffel bag on a gray tile floor. A calico cat is inside the duffel bag, poking just her face out to look at the camera.
Photo of a small crowd of protesters in an outdoor amphitheater, most wearing sun hats, and listening to a speaker.
Close-up photo of a calico cat resting on a gray blanket. She is staring off into the middle distance with an expression that seems to say, "I can't even."
Photo of a large crowd gathered for a #nokings rally. Lots of signs and American flags.
Photo of two people wearing red, white and blue in the hot Colorado sun. Behind them, a crowd is starting to gather
Photo of a hand holding a copy of the book, a sheet of temporary tattoos, and a dark red rose. In the background, wood church pews are visible.
Photo of a calico cat lying on a wood floor with her paws caught up in and wrapped a small pile of towels. She is looking up at the photographer as if surprised anyone thinks this behavior is odd. "What?" she seems to be asking.
Quotation on a light green background: "The focus on survival demands that you notice the tiger in the tree before you pay attention to the beauty of its branches. The one person who’s furious at you compels more attention than the eighty-nine who love you. Problems are our work; we deal with them in order to survive or to improve the world, and so to face them is better than turning away from them, from burying them and denying them. To face them can be an act of hope, but only if you remember that they’re not all there is.” - Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark
Image of a book quotation, with black text on a beige background: "If you are like me, sometimes you are just too tired. Too tired to cry. Too tired to feel. When that moment comes, I ask you not to judge the emotions in your body. Let them come and go. There is something called "empathy fatigue" that happens when we get overloaded by other people's pain. The good news is that you don't need to feel empathy all the time. Love is not a rush of feeling: Love is sweet labor" by Valarie Kaur, See No Stranger
A close up photo of a gray and white cat, with his head resting on a human leg, and his eyes closed. He's paws are tucked in under his neck, and his magnificent long whiskers are easily visible against blue jeans.
Black background with a cartoon image of a woman dressed vaguely like tarzan, with a white jaguar lounging near her feet, and a monkey on her shoulder. The text above her head reads: Hanna-Barbera Classic Collection, Jana of the Jungle.
Photo of an empty cat bed several inches away from a heating vent. A calico cat has squeezed herself between the bed and the wall, because there's a heating duct under the floor there.
Photo of a small table, holding a blue ceramic cup, and a copy of See No Stranger, by Valarie Kaur. In the background are two brown leather chairs and a fireplace.
Two cats, one calico and one gray and white, cuddling on a pair of legs in gray sweatpants.
Two cats napping on one set of human legs. One cat is a calico and the other is gray and white, but they otherwise have the uncanny resemblance of litter mates, especially in the way they curve their necks at the same angle.
Photo of two cats napping on a white bedspread. The gray and white cat in the foreground is curled up with his tail in front of his face and his ears pointed toward the right. In the background, a calico cat is curled up in the exact same position.
Photo of five books on a bookshelf. The first three are the Rook & Rose Trilogy by M.A. Carrick, the fourth is The Hornet's Nest by Jimmy Carter, and the fifth is Melissa Caruso's The Tethered Mage.
An orange background, with the quotation, "Hope is not like a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky... Hope is an ax you break down doors with in an emergency... Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from the annihilation of the earth's treasures and the grinding down of the poor and the marginal." By Rebecca Solnit, from Hope in the Dark.
Black background with white text, which reads, "Hope locates itself in the premises that we don't know what will happen and that in the spaciousness of uncertainty is room to act." The quotation is attributed to Rebecca Solnit, from her book Hope in the Dark.
Photo of a large demonstration from across the street. People are waving a variety of signs that are mostly hard to read at this distance. Behind the crowd, is a tan brick building and behind the building are some foothills of the Rocky mountains, was storm clouds overhead.
Close-up photo of a calico cat, sitting on a human's crossed knee. And looking intently at something down and to the right of the photographer.
Photo of four books on a bookshelf. The books, from left to right, are Homer's The Iliad, Homer's The Odyssey, Unrelenting, by Jessi Honard and Marie Parks, and Les Miserables by Victor Hugo.
Photo of a black and white mug with the quote "Art harder, mother fucker" on it. The mug is filled with lots of colored pens.
Photo of two cats, one calico and one white and gray, stretched out on a pair of legs under a blanket. Both cats are lazy and sleepy.
Photo of a gray and white cat sitting on a white countertop. The sun is making his white fur and his whiskers glow, and he's looking back over his shoulder like a model. The kitchen behind him is kind of a mess.
A gray and white cat looks very self satisfied as he loafs on a laptop bag. There is also a mess of paper and writing implements on the table.
Two cats sitting on a kitchen island, ears alert and eyes wide. There are empty coffee cups near them.
A gray and white cat from behind. The cat is looking at the television in the background, which has a blurry image of a woman teaching yoga.
Photo of a gray and white cat stretched long on a fleece blanket, under which you can barely make out the shape of a pair of legs. The blanket is also covered in cat hair.
Two cats cuddling on a pair of human legs on a couch. The closer cat is a calico curled up with her head on the backside of a gray and white cat who is stretched long.
Picture of two cats, one calico and one white and gray, sitting on a counter and staring at the photographer.
A gray and white cat very close to the camera and staring intently.
Sign contains a cartoonish picture of a cat wearing a chef's hat, surrounded by cupcakes. The text reads I bake so I don't punch people in the throat.
Photo of casa Bonita from the outside. It is a bright pepto-bismol pink building with ornate white trim, in the corner of a mini mall with a dentist next door. There's a cyber truck parked in the lot in the foreground.
Photo of a white and gray cat lying on a white duvet. He is curled into a horseshoe shape, but somehow still completely flat, and giving total surrender vibes.
Photo of an empty cat bed, a few inches from a heat register set low in the wall. A small calico cat has squeezed herself between the cat bed and the wall, and is lying stretched out on the wood floor.
One pair of legs on a couch, but you can barely see those legs underneath two cats. The one in the foreground is a calico with her head resting on the others' hindlegs. The other is a white-and-gray cat with his head resting on the human's foot.