Boo, there you are!

This is Boo, my partner's cat
where-ever he is, is where he's at.

This morning he was sat on our bedroom windowsill watching fat splodges of snow falling. And I love the way he sits. It is the embodiment of presence. He is perfectly still, yet alert for odd movement or noises. It's how he wanders around the house, bringing his presence into whichever room he wanders into. He brings a weighty, settling presence, will respond and do just what he's going to do informed by the immediate surroundings of where he is. To watch him prepare to sit and observe is to observe a master of mindfulness at work. He lies like an ornament of calm across the carpet, on the wooden floorboards of our house. The vibration of his purr is a transcendental tremor that embeds the moment, I am sure it is the very same vibrational frequency I aim for with my mantra. And he has his crazy half hour where he skites about chasing pen lids or any other daft thing that he suddenly finds playful.

So, this was him this morning. Right there where we were. A vital life among us anxiously struggling and often mindless humans. Our spirit animal that settles and blesses this home of ours.