"My Freddy" - I love the sound of that, however much I'd love to have your Freddy as my own. He is totally YOURS. You earned it!! And I just want a Freddy in my life too. Ok, there's bobi the bad... eh.
Love the way you seque into power struggles and personal freedom. Who is the cat, and to what extent are we mice? How many Top Cats are as good as Freddy the Gray? (Thinking of Gandalf here, The Grey). ok, my mind is all over the map again. To LIVE by nature's principles - I'm on it. Thinking about it. And feeling like a cat ready to pounce on a bigger, badder cat than me.... "It is not time to wake up the sheep but to wake up the other lions" - yeah, that's the mood I'm in. (Me, a lion: more like the puny tabby cat, declawed at that, looking into the mirror and seeing a tiger. Ha.)