A Year with Cats
Growing up in a rural area (not a village but a small city), I was quite familiar with many animal species. Among them, sheep, goats, and cows were generally everywhere. I have a very clear memory of going to see a herd of sheep and goats on a nearby mountain area with my cousins. The shepherd did not have a felt cloak because Cizre where I grow up is a warm even hot city and the shepherd goes to his own home after sunset. Not seeing a felt cloak was disappointing because one of my favorite songs in Kurdish at the time was called “ Çuxe min ” which literally means “My felt cloak”. However, the whole experience was fascinating to me. Seeing sheep grazing on grass, the shepherd having a sandwich-like lunch and the way animals recognize their homes when they are in the city for a child was a new world. The horses were around too, not as artists like BoJack, but as a sort of very primitive transportation method to transport small freight inside city. While Henry Ford said that “If ...