Galway Review 8 - April 2020

Mimi is really sad. Can you come to look after her this
afternoon? I buried the dead kittens with great sorrow’.
Mimi is a stray cat our son adopted several months ago.
After this message we realised how our son had spent
that morning and understood the reason for his failure to
turn up to sign the contract. As a feline obstetrician he
had helped the cat while giving birth and acted as a
psychologist for her as well, consoling his Mimi for the
loss of her two kittens. He had played his part in the
drama of ‘all creatures great and small’.
I remembered that some years ago I had said to my wife
that I needed to go to a psychologist to find a proper
way to communicate with my son but she had
suggested to me that it would be better for me to go to a
psychiatrist. That time I had laughed about it. Now, I had
to take seriously the issue of psychologist or
psychiatrist, for myself or for my son. Whichever one of
us needs one of them most.
Monthey, January 05, 2008.
Translated by Kujtim Morina
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