Anny Ballardini wrote:
> I lost mine years ago. It was painful enough. I could melt into tears if I
> think about her a little longer.
>
I can't believe I'm going to drop THIS quote from Irving Townsend.
Record producer, musician, and devoted to animal lives. It's one of the
most perfect statements of what we do when we take on life with a "pet":
"We who choose to surround ourselves with lives even more temporary than
our own live within a fragile circle easily and often breached. Unable
to accept its awful gaps, we still would live no other way. We cherish
memory as the only certain immortality, never fully understanding the
necessary plan."
A couple of weeks after I adopted Pushkin, the cat of "You Are Not
Here," I took her to the vet for a checkover. The exam cost me (for a
well cat) $168. I looked at the cat standing on the counter and
whispered to her "You little monster, you got me to fall in love with
you before I knew how expensive you would be." I never regretted it,
however.
http://bestiaire.typepad.com/moreau/2008/03/and-the-letting.html. A
four-handkerchief romance for cat & human, supply your own music.
Ken
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Ken Wolman http://bestiaire.typepad.com http://www.petsit.com/content317832.html
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"I have been watching you; you were there, unconcerned perhaps, but with the strange distraught air of someone forever expecting a great misfortune, in sunlight, in a beautiful garden."--Maurice Maeterlinck, "Pelleas et Melisande"
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