Music and Cats

Isn’t he cute? I hope he’ll feel like smiling again soon.
One of the new drugs his doctor prescribed yesterday helped with the waking-up-coughing problem, and we both got a little more sleep last night. I hope tonight will be even better.
More Music and Cats, on this date in:
2007: Kitchen Transformation: The proof is in […]

More animals cute and cuddly can be found aboard the Friday Ark and at Weekend Cat Blagging, hosted this weekend by Breadchick.

Paul has had a terrible hacking cough for over a week now. He wakes up coughing several times each night, sounding as if he’s going to expel a lung. As a result, neither of us has been sleeping well. When I sit down with my computer to write, I’m unable to focus. I’m just too […]

“–that out of many, we are one; that while we breathe, we hope, and where we are met with cynicism, and doubt, and those who tell us that we can’t, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people. Yes We Can.” — Barack Obama

I, too, sing America.
I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.
Tomorrow,
I’ll be at the table
When company comes.
Nobody’ll dare
Say to me,
“Eat in the kitchen,”
Then.
Besides,
They’ll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed–
I, too, am America.
–Langston Hughes