This website is meant as a place of inspiration, comfort, and learning, and to foster understanding among all mammals, most especially cats and humans. Since the summer of 1997, Harry the Cat and I have worked ceaselessly, side by side, intentionally co-creating techniques and methods of feline-human communication. Harry was a highly sensitive and communicative individual who routinely projected impressions that I interpreted as pictures and thoughts, although when I say "thoughts", I really mean feelings and emotions like joy and satisfaction and an ever-expanding sense of quality that only deepened throughout his lifetime. Harry's sense of time and our place in it is a uniquely Cat sensibility, and his message equates with the deepest insights one may attain through any philosophy I have ever encountered.

Harry the Cat was my brother, my mentor, my best teacher and constant companion for over eighteen years, and the best friend I have ever known in this incarnation, in any form, as any species. Harry was deeply invested in comfort, satisfaction, inspiration, and quality of life. He imbued his environment with a sense of purpose and exuberance in extracting every morsel of enjoyment out of existence, as he helped to contribute it to everyone else's.

I have hundreds of pages of notes that I still have to go through, and many photographs that might convey a sense of his personality. My hope is that in his passing, I may find in myself the capacity to bring forward the essence of who he was in this life while somehow translating what I have learned from him into words that don't distort the wordless sensibility of a creature who did not think in symbolic terms, yet shared his impressions with us so openly and without reservation.  Until then, I give you the essence of what we were working on, through music.  Is Barry Schmaltz related to Harry the Cat in a multiversal way?  Barry and Harry?  Is Barry Schmaltz a manifestation of the psychic bond I shared with Harry the Cat?  

I wonder about this.