The European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, aka Juice, launched last Friday after a weather delay. The spacecraft’s mission is to explore several of Jupiter’s moons, which are thought to potentially have liquid water oceans. The craft is expected to reach Jupiter in 2031 and collect data via flybys until 2035.
Architectural Digest offers a questionable list of the 37 most beautiful train stations in the world.
A brief history of traveling with cats, and of cats themselves.
This newsletter goes out on 4/20. Here’s a brief history on how 420 came to be associated with weed, dating back over 50 years. In the US, recreational cannabis use is legal in only 21 states and legal only for medical use in another 17 states.
In case you’re baking today: how to make box brownies better. (And, how to make Cannabutter.)
The news this week is once again full of devastating gun violence against young people. I’m sharing two short poems: Mahogany L. Brown’s “Gun Shy” and Diane di Prima’s “Revolutionary Letter #100.”
Thanks for reading,
Kate
My coworker and I were actually discussing both of those shootings earlier today. The one was about 2hrs NE of me. It's sickening. I hope all involved can find peace and/or justice. I don't know what else must happen before this country starts altering its culture.
On a lighter note, I pet-sat my friends' cat (and fish and bearded dragons) this weekend, and I tried harness training him because he was desperate to be out on their porch. Sadly, it seems that my friends didn't update his harness since his failed training when he was a kitten, so the harness wouldn't fit. He's also a wiggly stinker, so I didn't trust just holding him or otherwise trying to block him while out on the 2nd story apartment porch. He'd likely wiggle through the banister before I could stop him and then I'm sprinting around to try to get outside to catch him. 😅 So inside we stayed with the porch storm door open and the screen door shut. Maybe the next time I pet-sit he'll have a proper-sized harness (and is successfully trained). Traveling, adventurous cats are so magical to me. So thank you for that article.