Small Certainties of Cats

Sun on a chair, an open window, food put down, small certainties that are the matter of their lives. If they are capable of expectation it is this: that everything will stay the same. So we let in the morning sun and put down food; a window open all the time, and everything remains the same. We know that there will be a day of illness, pain and fear and fear of death and death. Within that larger certainty we take some comfort from their constant day to day, sustain small certainties: sun on a chair, an open window, food put down. We live in their small certainties, the larger one deferred.