Friday, March 28, 2008

Christopher the Cat and Miho


Christopher loves to spread joy.  He thinks he was born to be a joy-spreader.  Actually, his mother told him as much nearly every day as he was growing up.  He spreads joy by whistling as he walks and smiling very genuinely at people as they pass him by.  He picks flowers and attaches little notes to them that say "the birds thank you".  Then, he leaves them on park benches where he knows older people will be feeding the pigeons.  He is known for his hugs which give people warm-fuzzy explosions inside themselves.  He's Christopher the joy-spreading cat.


Miho is studying very hard to be a Geisha.  Her mother is a Geisha, and Miho thinks her mother is the most beautiful, graceful woman to walk the Earth.  Miho is clumsy, so she is having difficulty learning the proper dances, but she plays the shakuhachi very elegantly and this makes her feel good about herself.  Miho has a pet kitten, Yuki, and she practices dancing in front of her.  Yuki is very supportive.  

Speaking of joy-spreaders, I ran into one at the grocery store the other day.  I was in this special grocery store called the Sahara Mart.  I like it there, they have a large variety of coffee with interesting names like "Midnight Magic".  I was looking for chocolate to send to my friend Alice, and there was an older woman there, also in the chocolate aisle.  We had to kind of dance around each other to look closely at the chocolates, and she turned to me excitedly and said, "Isn't this fun?" and I thought it was, so I told her yes.  I asked her what was good (she looked experienced) and she picked out the most surprising choices.  She said that she really liked the chocolate lavender, but that day she was gong to try the chocolate bacon.  I thought maybe she was joking, but that really exists, and she really was going to eat it.  It was really fun talking chocolates with this woman, and it made my day. 

4 comments:

Melissa said...

I LOVE your pillow dolls (especially Miho - she's beautiful)! You have amazing creativity and are such an inspiration.

Eva said...

so cute!!! i love all the attention to detail :)

Archie and Melissa said...

Your dolls are like the chocolates. They are so much fun and absolutely make my day. Your work is beautiful and inspiring!
:) Melissa

Mitsy / ArtMind said...

Christopher looks so funky! :)
I live in the land of chocolate and there is this chocolate-bar in my town were thye do artisan work. First time a tasted chocolate with spices, I think I nearly fainted *SO good* I've never had bacon neither lavender before - must give that a try!