Today is National Love Your Pet Day.
I don't think this is what they mean.... Do yoo?
Today is National Love Your Pet Day.
I don't think this is what they mean.... Do yoo?
As Ms Ramaswami says, the
cats she usually saw on the streets are very thin. Sickly. Initially she has
only mild interest in the cats. In Oman, street cats are a part of life, but
life outside the home walls. Feeding them is not encouraged. The cats must
fight among themselves for whatever scraps they can find in the trash bins.
Chitra, in fact, brought home a sickly, but feral kitten as a child, however it
erupted in panic, leaving scratches before being set free, confirming in her
mind the accepted notion that street cats were not meant to be pets.
She does not consider herself a cat person when the book opens. She has a rabbit back in New Jersey where her husband works, and muses she would like to have a dog someday. However Fate has other ideas when a scrawny ginger-white cat appears in her path. The moment the cat lifts his head to gaze at Chitra with tired, golden eyes filled with a melancholic emptiness, the stars align.
Chitra says she always
leaves a little room in her heart for the unexpected. Rumi’s arrival is
certainly unexpected, but in her heart Chitra soon realizes her initial promise
to her family to find this sweet stray a home is futile. Rumi and Chitra are
meant to be together.
BUT FIRST, RUMI is a
well-told weave of one woman’s determination to overcome her native country’s
prejudice against helpless cats. I applaud her for answering the call of caring
for the Oman street cats when few others do, and I look forward to future novels
by this talented author.
Today's topic is Choose to be Happy.
For the past year my family has been nomming a steady diet of stress. And it's not delicious, even with a little salt and a shot of tequila.
Yoo see my pawrents packed up our home and moved us to Flory-Da last summer. During the packing Mom realized she had been lugging too many items from childhood throughout her life. Plus, being an author, she had boxes of abandoned manuscripts, lots of beloved books, and sentimental stuff acquired from relatives who had gone over the rainbow bridge. It was time to purge.
Livin the dream on Canada's Cape, meet the guy you all know as @ItsMeKevin_theCat.