Of course, I don t want to lose any of the things I brought with me. However, none of that stuff is worth risking life and limb. But my cats are life. Yes, they are a pain to travel with, to descend on friends with, but they are mine and I love them. Could I leave them, trusting that I will be back in a couple of weeks.
Tears come off and on for the rest of the afternoon.
I m not hungry, but I need to use up food from the freezer. I blend some frozen bananas for my lunch. I tell the cats we are going home. They were born in Kenya. I tell them they could have ugali and omena, their old diet of white cornmeal mush and tiny dried fish.