Entries from March 2022

Vent’anni

March 26, 2022

“Arise from sleep, old cat, And with great yawns and stretchings… Amble out for love” ~ Issa (Translated by Peter Beilenson) Japanese Haiku 1955-56   My sweet Sofia (recent photo above) just turned 20 years-old! It was on March 25, twenty years ago, that I found Sofia and her brothers abandoned in a shoe box, […]

Green Season

March 13, 2022

“The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh.” ~ Rumi     Spring has come a bit early to my house: the Orchid Sisters have returned! When they bloomed last year, it had […]