Kliban's Cats by B. Kliban for August 11, 2020

Zaftig kitty. (I wish I could remember the artist this drawing was referencing.)

How Rubenesque and lovely.

The daring young cat on the flying, cat swing?

I like this very much.

“Would you like to swing on a star …. carry moonbeams home in a jar? " (from an old song I remembered when I was a kid)

How would you like to go up in the air, up in the Sky so blue, oh I do think it’s a wonderful thing, ever a child can do, up in the air and over the wall, so I can see so wide, rivers and trees and flowers and things, over the country side…..“Robert Louis Stevenson” ( To my recollection, it may not be word for word but it’s what I use to recite to my kids when they were on their swing set, flying so high, the back legs of the set would go up in the air…gasp! ) LOL

What an adorable KITTY! Flowers flowing …..

Wheeee!

Jāņi is a traditional (originally pre-Xian) summer-solstice festival very widely celebrated with song and dance in Latvia and by the Latvian diaspora around the world.

For the festival, girls and women make and wear complex floral wreath-crowns like that (if made of 27 different kinds of flowers, grasses, and herbs, such crowns traditionally have magical protective powers), while boys and men wear oak-leaf wreath-crowns to celebrate the strength and importance of trees, particularly oak trees.

If you’re going to San Francisco…………………

To finish the verse,,,“and be better off than you are, or would you rather be a mule?”

looks like my fat cat.