Day 1

Day one without the red cat. No aroma therapy, acupuncture, reflexology, herbal supplement or alternative medicine will do or can undo the passing of a fellow traveler for over 13 years. Anecdotal evidence of the effectiveness of alternative medicines merely represents random tales such as the one I can tell of the decline of fluffy, feline perfection over the span of a few months. Or try to explain the random inevitability of life and death. So no ‘here’ or ‘there,’ hit-or-miss alternative medicine for me. Just the ‘everywhere,’ time-tested remedy for the crush of sorrow - a long sob, perhaps two.