Tag Archive for Saffron

Losing My Identity

I don’t lose things. I don’t leave my cell phone on store counters, I don’t misplace my keys, and I certainly don’t lose my driver license. But now it seemed to have happened.

It was annoying but eventually led to a glorious realization.

Fulltime traditional jobs weren’t coming to fruition, a vandal drizzled chocolate syrup on the windshield of my car, my cat Saffron found a little brown bat on the balcony and brought it into my bed as a plaything. Several rabies shots and mandatory emergency room visits later, I was looking at debt for the first time in my life because also for the first time in my life I lacked health insurance.
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If You Got Up, You Can Get Down

People worry about cats stuck in trees. But, really, have you ever found a feline skeleton dangling from a branch? No. They find their way back to the ground.

When I first moved to my current apartment, my cat Saffron adapted quickly. He spent a few days crawling in and out from under the bed to nap and hide, but it was just a tiny bit of time before he was staring out windows and watching birds.

Saffron checking out plants on the balcony in March 2011

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