He woke up one Sunday morning blind. He'd been nearly blind before, but now he walked into walls and traced invisible circles on the kitchen floor.
Some looked at the aged, sightless, incontinent, hypertensive, arthritic, tumorous, easily infected, feeble cat and saw pathos. I saw a courageous, fragile being who reached up for steps he could not see, and who sought the sunlight that pierced his blindness.
Critter at home
6 March 2003
lifespan: 1984-2003
He loved sitting in the sunlight coming through the back windows