Posted by on Aug 28, 2016 | 11 comments

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Unfinished kitties

Well, mama’s friend, Anne, sent her an article from the New York Times about visitors viewing an exhibition of unfinished works of art at the Breuer Museum in New York City and their opinions on what they saw and mama was very moved by this, especially the very astute comment by one viewer that all art is unfinished:

 “An artist is never finished so their art is never finished. When you finish it, you kill it. Leaving it unfinished, you keep it alive.”

Well, mama and papa and I have been discussing this all morning, and I wonder what you think.  Mama is always saying that nothing she paints seems finished, and maybe that’s just the nature of creating art.  Or maybe not.  But then mama broke into tears because she said to papa, “Well, maybe everyone’s life is an unfinished work of art and indeed, when it is finished, it is dead.”

But then mama is always saying how she thinks so often of a friend of ours who died suddenly, and that the friend is with us even if not with us because she left so many reminders of her life as a work of art, and maybe that’s what we all do, just live as best we can and never really stop to think about each thing we do or say is a brush stroke on our life canvas and sometimes they are good ones and sometimes you wish you could rub them out or paint over…

All this philosophy is wearing me out, but I’m thinking, I’m thinking.  I just LOOK like I’m snoozing.

(Speaking of being overwhelmed by life, take a laughing look at this!)

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I am adding to this post that our good friend, A. Cameron, in  Suffolk, England, has lost her kitty, Sybil.  Ms. Cameron lives in Campsea Ashe and you never know who is reading this blog so I am putting out an all-points alert for SYBIL, Ms. Cameron’s kitty, who disappeared while her family was away in Italy.  Someone came by to feed her each day, but there are two bruisers down the street who just moved in and Ms. Cameron is worried that SYBIL was terrorized by the new inhabitants.  If you have any idea about this part of the world and have seen SYBIL, please contact my blog.

Here is a photo of Sybil:

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She is a lovely calico and very friendly.