Operating Instructions by Anne Lamott

Author:Anne Lamott [Lamott, Anne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-76103-3
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2011-02-08T16:00:00+00:00

DECEMBER 6

We had a great time today. He slept a lot, laughed a lot, played, roared. Later we had a Hoagy Carmichael dance contest, and we won—we won big. It was just Sam, the kitty, and me, but still, we felt good about it.

It takes Sam a long time to fall asleep at night, and when he does, I can’t tiptoe around cleaning up because (I think) he subconsciously hears me sneaking around and finds it unbecoming and he wakes up crying. So often I just sit by him and watch him sleep. I tell him while he sleeps that it’s a jungle out there, and you have to be really, really careful or else the eagles will get you, like they got Johnny G. My friend Mary had six cats at one point, until her cat Johnny G. disappeared, and eagles had been seen in the sky that very same day, so of course you could only draw one conclusion. After that she used always to warn the other cats to be really careful so that the eagles didn’t get them, too. The odds seemed so stacked. Have you ever seen that awful PBS nature movie on baby turtles, where they show you the beach where twenty million turtle eggs are laid and then hatch? Then they show you those twenty million baby turtles trying to race across the sand before the seagulls swoop down and gobble them up. About forty-five baby turtles make it to the water. It makes you shake your head. You double over and have to hold onto your stomach. I say, Please, please, please, God, let Sam make it to the water.

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