OMG! I Can't Believe I Missed National Cat Dat And I Have The Best Cat Story Ever

Yep, yours truly has the best cat story ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Every person I have told this story to has agreed so now I have to share it with you.

I had this cat named Jackson after Jackson Pollock the greatest Abstract Expressionist Painter in the world!

All my friends know of this legendary cat by way of me telling the true story of how one day in May of 2006, while I was in my basement art studio, he comes through the opened awning window with something in his mouth. I only am noticing him out of the corner of my eye since I was more focused on a painting. Little did I know that this special one of a kind creature that I am forever grateful for being in my life, carried in his mouth, through the window, jumping down on to a table, then on to the floor and not more then two feet in front of me (actually closer to my right foot) he drops what was in his mouth and gave me the loudest meow that demanded my attention. When I finally looked at him and saw what was at his paws, I could not be anymore surprised and filled with a feeling of love for this special creature that brought me a fallen flower from a tree on my property. 

Since then I gladly boast about this amazing creature that had brought me more flowers in his life time (I stopped counting after 100) then any human ever has.  And that is only one of his amazing stories. 
Jacksie is also responsible for my greatest body of work I have ever created and I am forever greatful that this awesome creation chose to live with me in is too brief of a life. 

On November 8th, 2008, I started on a path of creativity, that I had no initial idea of what the outcome would be.  As far as I knew on that day I was only commemorating my love for my beloved cat Jackson that had just passed away on that day.  I created four new paintings on 11"x14" paper and they were just completely different from any work I had done before so I numbered, signed & dated them not completely understanding the reason behind this since I had never done that before.  Jump to November 7th, 2009, I had finished creating piece #10,202.  What happened between those two dates is nothing short of a creative miracle that I alone only have memories of.  3 months later the idea came to me for doing this again with LIVE STREAMING VIDEO 24/7, showing all the intimate details that an artist can go through in the creative process. 


I just looked for the past half hour for his photo and I can't even find it.  BIG TIME SCREAMING DARN IT!!  I guess you will just have to trust me that he was so handsome in a boyish brutish way.

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