Bird By Bird

Italian cats!  You didn't think I'd leave these guys out did you?  I've got one last Rome post left in me, but I'm trapped in quicksand at school.  Oy.  Bit by bit I'll dig myself out and re-learn how to let the art life live 

beside the work life.  My gears are stuck on LOW. Bird by bird, as Anne Lamott says, bird by bird. 

Comments

[Diane Cook]

Your eye catches life in the most wonderful ways~
xoxox

[Lisa Hoffman]

Even working part time, I feel like I'm in one of those fun houses at the carnival...the ones with the radically slanted floors...ya know?

Your readers will await you, so feel no pressure.

Kiss on Both sides of the face, Italian Style!

[Sandy]

The last one looks like my backyard, well the cat part. My hubby fed one cat and he told his friends, now we have 5 outside strays and one just had 4 kittens, she delivered them to our back porch last week for food. I told him we have to catch them in those traps you get from the vet and have them all fixed so they will quit reproducing. I can't just stop feeding them, that's mean. I also have 2 inside cats and 2 Yorkies. I'm a sucker for animals. I like humans too, but I think animals are nicer some days.....

[Zee]

awww cats! Love them! I have 4. Two are brazilian cats, the other two, american cats. We don't see the difference...ha!
Great photos!!!

[Erin Glee]

Silly me! How could think you wouldn't have a whole post devoted to Italian cats? Forgive me, I'm new here. Wonderful photos!

Sorry the reality of work is getting in the way of the important stuff... let us know if we need to throw you a rope... or a Gelato?

[Terri]

great pics!!!! I hear there are TONS of feral and semi/feral kitties in Greece too. Everytime Im in Atlantic City I bring the camera to get pics of the mass exodus at daybreak. Its awesome to see 20 plus cats herding across the sand together. Luckily its a controlled community that is neutered and fed daily....love your blog

[stephanie]

Not too hard to understand how difficult it would be to be thrown back into reality after such a trip!!

[eb]

yes Ms. Lamott - every book and every bird and every cat and every lovely ms. moss post - dispatch by dispatch...

xox - eb.

[Chris]

I love that book.

Here's the deal: I have a ratter dog, and I'm thinking of getting a new rat. So.

We all live lives of danger.

[Judy Wise]

enchanting, Miss Moss!!

[Deb]

Anne Lamott--one of my fave contemporary authors and "Bird By Bird", a most treasured volume in my library! Or, as you experienced in Italia, cat by cat, and no doubt will find this term, student by student........

Deb

[Tyn]

Oh don't let the posse see you cavoriting with those Italian cats- they will think you unfaithful and leave a dead squirrel in your abode. Oh- yea- too late.

[susan w]

I looked over my shoulder as i finished reading this; one cat sleeping on the table (where she is not supposed to be) and the other curled on an entry table(also uninvited). We are one world indeed, especially us dozing felines.
I sympathize with you TOTALLY. Finding a balance is an ongoing exercise - one which must not be abandoned. Is this a new school year - with a new crew of clueless? Or are the former alligators returning to you? Either way - have an excellent term.
I have two half days more before the end of our school year - traditional calendar - 9 & 3 {not really more like two months plus]. Each August I remind myself to expect raging cluelessness, no matter how much pre-school experience. And each August, I am again floored by the infancy of the new babies. Babies! I tell you! Babies!