My companion and friend departed this world yesterday. She was not a human - but a cat. Nothing in my life had ever prepared me for this kind of love or loss. I’m writing this as a tribute/memorial to her as much as to help myself to deal with my feelings around losing her. [caption id=“attachment_30” align=“alignnone” width=“525”] ”Cats come into your house to teach you about affection, they leave to teach you about the loss.”~Jules Verne[/caption] ...
~ Quotations from: “Cat Quotations” - a book in my own personal library. [caption id=“attachment_1474” align=“aligncenter” width=“584”] Cat with Japanese Maple in Red Fall Color[/caption] “There are other ties which cats put on our affections. We enjoy their intelligence and grace; and we feel a strange sense of companionship and consolation in their presence. But these are ideas we can understand by words. The reasons for their appeal to us can never be expressed too clearly.” (Lloyd Alexander) ...