Cat and bird nest as a parable of life

Cat (bottom left) and bird's nest (top centre) as a parable of life---and death.
By Behzad (?), Herat, late 15th c.
Thanks to George Manginis

Ernest Menaul

"The cat has too much spirit to have no heart"

© Graeme Mitchell

Leonard Cohen at home in Los Angeles
in September, 2016.