“Rapt Contemplation”

Ypache Tsuga

 

Here, she is sitting on a fence post in front of a beech tree in the garden...She may well be contemplating her name.

 

Eliot says cats must have three names. Ypache has two. However, I often call her Ypache McClatchey; well, she IS Scottish, after all.

 

Her middle name is a nod to her mother, Aspyn, named after a beautiful willow tree and, as we had just returned from a road trip from California, through Oregon to Washington, I decided to use the western hemlock or Tsuga.

 

South Carrick Hills

SW Scotland

 

iPad “noir” function.

 

 

“When you notice a cat in profound meditation

The reason, I tell you, is always the same

His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation

Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name

His ineffable, effable, effanineffable

Deep and inscrutable singular name

Name, name, name, name, name, name.”

TS Eliot - ‘The Naming of Cats’

Done