Another Peaceful Night

Another peaceful night, with Kitty guarding his Tashie, snuggled in the crook of her elbow. Every few minutes he reaches out and gently pats her cheek with a soft paw.












The sky is just now deepening its blue. Cloudless.
A few nights ago, when Tashie was still speaking, she asked if a fire was burning in the living room. It wasn't, so we started one, and she was well pleased. So last night, Philip created the living room ambiance that Tashie would have liked: roaring fire, many candles on the mantlepiece, twinkly lights draped over the windows. The living room version of her room, minus the roaring fire.
I read to her passages from The Little Prince, one of her very favourite books. “You - you alone will have the stars as no one else has them...In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night...You - only you - will have stars that can laugh.”