One time, when I was in London, England, I attended a performance of the musical CATS, which was based on T.S. Eliot’s poems collected in Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats. Eliot wrote other more serious poetry collections such as The Love Song of J. Albert Prufrock and The Wasteland. In 1948, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He is considered one of the great modern poets of the English language. He was also an essayist, playwright, publisher, and literary critic. His whimsical poems about cats and their secret names endeared him to me. A major poet who can let his supposed dignity be impugned by a collection of cat poems must have been able to not take himself too seriously. With notable humor, Eliot captures the character and foibles of both cats and humans. Someone has said that “dogs live for us, but cats live with us.” Perhaps it could be said that, from the cat’s perspective, we live with them. I value and enjoy the independent nature of both cats and humans. In children, young people and adults, I like the independent thinkers and I suspect that Jesus likes them, too.