What is most fabulous about John's writing is there are all these gems...different ones which reach out to different ones of us...

For me it is....

As he ate, his head would rotate back and forth like a radar antenna, constantly on the watch, like an antelope at a watering hole, afraid of any unusual sound or movement
This describes perfectly the eating habits of Elizabeth and the other stray cat who graced our yard briefly this summer.

And look at him in the photo. Eating off his smiling tray and with his water in a lovely glass! Is that the good china as well?

Oh, Fister...what a long way you have come from shrimp on the stairs!