Diva

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Diva was born about mid-September 2004, making her about 11 mnths old now (late summer 2005). Diva was one of the three kittens (the "three black bullets") we adopted from the nearby "The Shelter of Hope" (who look after stray animals until their adoption). The story of why we adopted these three is told in the section on our sadly departed Pedigree. We adopted the three kittens in November/04 and shortly afterwards they sent this note of gratitude to The Shelter of Hope.

It's not immediately obvious in this photo (lacking context markers to give you an idea of size) that here at the right she is a tiny kitten only a couple of months old and just a fraction of her present size now (summer 2005) as shown above left.

Here's another picture of Diva today, standing on our back step. She's very athletic -- leaps several times her height to successfully retrieve plastic stars stuck on a glass door. Most of all she has a bright quizzical face that looks at you with such intensity (see first picture on the left above) that you know she has some element of the divine (as her name implies). Indeed, after taking a couple of excellent courses on Islamic Civilization (see 2nd window) we are impressed with the concept of creatures (as well as scientific discoveries) as representing "signs of the Creator". Nowhere does this seem as apt as when gazing into Diva's amazing face.

Finally, here's a picture of Diva (at the top) watching her friend Tippy climb up the steps toward her.