CatScratches

Back in the saddle...

and it only took a year and forty-five days. Whooda thunk my beautiful perfectly perfect baby girl  (she kinda looks like she does in the sonogram below right?!)

could've sucked away all my creative energy for the more than the first year of her life?  Okay so of course she did.  But it's all coming back. 

It's like going number two.  It comes rushing in whether you like it or not and sometimes it takes a while Sometimes it happens so fast you're not sure it did happen.  Sometimes it's cathartic.  Sometimes it's painful.  But for now...it keeps on coming. 

I've written three new poems.  For each of those, I've lost a dozen to my daily commute, Bumble, 7 consecutive loads of laundry, my career, my libido...my life.  It's also been the best year and forty-five days...of my life.

God made the cat in order that man might have the pleasure of caressing a tiger.

~Fernand Mery

Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier 'n puttin' it back in. Will Rogers

When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.

Montaigne

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

Albert Schweitzer

Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.

- James Herriot

Who among us hasn't envied a cat's ability to ignore the cares of daily life and to relax completely?  ~Karen Brademeyer

If there is one spot of sun spilling onto the floor, a cat will find it and soak it up.

~Jean Asper McIntosh

There are no ordinary cats.
~ Colette

Most cats, when they are out want to be in, and vice versa, and often simultaneously.
~ Dr Louis J. Camuti