Photographs courtesy of Barbara Stone.

Buddhas courtesy of The Buddha Gallery.

If you are interested in Buddhism, please also visit Barb’s “The List of Buddha Lists.”

Mine, says the cat, putting out his paw of darkness.

My lover, my friend, my slave, my toy, says

the cat making on your chest his gesture of drawing

milk from his mother’s forgotten breasts.”

“The cat’s song”, by Marge Piercy, Mars & Her Children

At long last, Turk and Elliot have been adopted.  They will go to live with their new humans on September 1.