Category: Cat Quote
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Since John Ballard has gone silent after a burst of energy, it's time for some Random Thoughts & Idle Chatter and what better way is there than turning to cat antics? Here is a photo and a video of cats doing … well whatever it is that cats do. What appealed to me particularly about the photo is that the feline duo here…
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"There is nothing sweeter than his peace when at rest, for there is nothing brisker than his life when in motion." -Christopher Smart
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Season's Greetings to our readers and my co-bloggers. Hope everyone returns to A.B. refreshed and cheered after the holiday festivities are over and done with for the year. I am going on a short trip and won't be blogging for some time. Unless someone else finds the time to post, the front page will remain static for a…
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Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose. – Garrison Keillor
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The scene of this chronicle is the town of Dawson’s Landing, on the Missouri side of the Mississippi, half a day’s journey, per steamboat, below St. Louis. In 1830 it was a snug collection of modest one- and two- story frame dwellings, whose whitewashed exteriors were almost concealed from sight by climbing tangles of rose…
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O little emperor with no orb, conqueror without country, ….. tiny tiger of the living room, posing four delicate feet on the ground sniffing, mistrustful of everything on earth, because everything is unclean for the cat’s immaculate foot. The above is an excerpt from Pablo Neruda’s poem Ode to the Cat (Oda al Gato) which…
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He who dislikes the cat, was in his former life, a rat. Chinese Proverb (This is the beginning of a regular series of cat quotes that will appear here)