Darling

     This is Darling. My mother Donna's cat.  When my mother was in the ICU, dying, she gave me instructions to have Darling "put down." She couldn't bear not knowing what would happen to her.  When I told her I would take her, she still wanted me to put her to sleep.  My mother didn't want the anxiety of worrying about Darling in the big city.

   As it turned out, my mother didn't die just yet, but she moved to Buffalo NY to live with me.  Darling greeted her arrival.

Valentine's Day

"My funny valentine, sweet, comic valentine--you make me smile with my heart."

Whose heart is so dead that you don't thrill to the opening notes of John Coltrane's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=va4sNXYpDXY          or Chet Baker's laid back version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvyfEiO0lvc.

Each day is Valentine's Day.