Saturday
Jun042011
Purr
Saturday, June 4, 2011 at 6:11PM 
Can a sound be warm? I think of a cat’s purr as a warm sound, thick and rich like melting chocolate or coffee brewing. It’s cosy: firesides and blankets and snow outside. It means safety and comfort and happiness. Maybe it’s the fact that it’s almost a background sound that makes it so warm, as if the cat’s emitting it like heat. It’s like the crackle of a record in that way, or the gentle roar of the flame on a gas cooker: a base coating in all of the layers of sound that might be happening at the same time.
Cats are on my mind at the moment – ours has gone missing. There’s been no purring here for a week. I hope she’s purring somewhere...
Monkey by Kieran Hazell (www.ownbeat.co.uk)
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Hear No Evil
Reader Comments (3)
Did you find her yet?
Oh, I forgot to say on here! Yes, we did thank you. She came home late one night as though nothing had happened... and has since become a rather adventurous little thing. Nowadays we think nothing of it when we don't see her for several days at a time. I think she has other human friends besides us!
Whew! Glad to hear it.
Our cats are frequent subjects for hubby's and my 'small stones'. :)