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A true tale about cats
Feb. 13th, 2016 10:54 pmI was going to write about a work topic, but this is too good not to share.
D’s clarinet teacher is a quirky older lady, until recently with the local symphony, and teaches most of the top local students. She’s very patient, at least with D. who has a fantastic innate sense of timing; I’ve seen her a bit less patient with some of the others on that topic. She likes to illustrate her teaching with great metaphors and curious stories, and today she told us the story of her mama cat trying to keep her kittens corralled (which she was relating to handling the sharps and flats in the scales).
Some 15 years ago, one of her cats had four kittens, and this particular cat was very concerned to keep the kittens in the box with her. She would only leave them very briefly when she needed to eat or use the litterbox, then she would dash right back to them. As soon as their eyes had opened, though, the kittens wanted to explore. So one would get out of the box, and she’d jump out and bring it back, then the next would leave, and she’d go after it, until she was getting quite worn out.
A few days later, D’s teacher went out for a few hours, and when she came back, the kittens were wandering on their own all over the house. She went to investigate, and the mama cat was happily curled up in the box… with four dirty socks that she’d gone and found in the laundry basket. These new “kittens” were so much better behaved!
D’s clarinet teacher is a quirky older lady, until recently with the local symphony, and teaches most of the top local students. She’s very patient, at least with D. who has a fantastic innate sense of timing; I’ve seen her a bit less patient with some of the others on that topic. She likes to illustrate her teaching with great metaphors and curious stories, and today she told us the story of her mama cat trying to keep her kittens corralled (which she was relating to handling the sharps and flats in the scales).
Some 15 years ago, one of her cats had four kittens, and this particular cat was very concerned to keep the kittens in the box with her. She would only leave them very briefly when she needed to eat or use the litterbox, then she would dash right back to them. As soon as their eyes had opened, though, the kittens wanted to explore. So one would get out of the box, and she’d jump out and bring it back, then the next would leave, and she’d go after it, until she was getting quite worn out.
A few days later, D’s teacher went out for a few hours, and when she came back, the kittens were wandering on their own all over the house. She went to investigate, and the mama cat was happily curled up in the box… with four dirty socks that she’d gone and found in the laundry basket. These new “kittens” were so much better behaved!