A Gift From Bob

A Gift From Bob by James Bowen                 Hardback Book: 172 pages             

 

My favorite dynamic duo, Bob the Street Cat and his human friend, James.    In this book,  James Bowen shares a lot of stories about Christmases he and Bob have spent together since 2007 when they became flatmates.    Some happy memories, some sad, some kind of harrowing with near misses and escapes from dark characters and a time or two some pretty rough circumstances with guardian angel interventions or surely divine intervention from a higher power, James claims to be a Buddhist, afterall, so perhaps it is the Nirvana of the enlightened path.    The hard times and the dire times have led to much enlightenment in James’ life and that is where Bob comes in.   A teacher, a friend,  a mysterious visitor who drops in unannounced and stays to bring joy and comfort even strength and love to a young down on his luck “busker”/recovering addict, named James.   This furry friend helped James turn his life around.   Looking after Bob helped James to focus on caring for someone else besides himself.   Bob helped James to become a responsible adult instead of the heroin addicted burnout he had been previously.  As the saying goes, “When the student is ready a teacher will be sent,” and James’ time had come.  Divine intervention sent Bob the StreetCat to help James with a paw up to get back on his feet, to stand clean and proud and rightly so after all James had been through in his life.    We all need someone in our corner that we can count on, that someone for James is Bob.   I am a fan of these two and I loved hearing some of their Christmas stories from their 10 years and counting together.      Bravo!    Well done, James and Bob!  J