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    A Cat Named Birdie
    A Cat Named Birdie
    A Cat Named Birdie
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    A Cat Named Birdie

    By Chris Nelson

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    A cat named birdie - the author expresses delight and wonderment at the great range of behaviours, ranging from comical and hilarious, to tender and even moving, exhibited by his former budgie and his present rescue cat from the humane society of Ottawa. even though they are separated in time and space, and the persons who appear in the stories are not the same anymore, in the author's imagination, it is all just like yesterday, so that the lines become blurred between yesterday and today.
    Nowhere is this more apparent than in the first poem, a cat named birdie, where the author imagines himself training his present cat to get along in peace and harmony with his former budgie, concluding that it would be to the cat's credit if it could be done he says.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateAug 15, 2019
    ISBN9781796052831
    A Cat Named Birdie
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    Chris Nelson

    Chris Nelson (Christopher Richard Nelson) in full is now the proud author of eleven published/marketed books. He has another one complete and ready to go about people helping people, side by side, through love and life, *(with an assist from our canine friends). It is a wide ranging book, with quotable quotes, poetic portraits of the symphony family, Rock Beautiful Musical Maidens Singing their Hearts Out (from Carly Simon, To Sade, to Anne Muray, to Barbara Streisand to Katy Perry) (twelve) with two chapters about following the wagging tails of our canine friends to a better, less judgmental, more accepting and just plain friendlier world.

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