Today’s Keith Spiro Communicast post in the Manchester Ink Link talks about a pedestrian crosswalk transformed by an artsy repeating image of cats. The stencil was created by the creative team at Orbit Group and David Hedy was my key contact to all the excitement.

I remembered the old children’s song THE CAT CAME BACK that pretty much launched Fred Penner’s career. The song itself has an easy rhythm & tempo and its funny lyrics and repetitions become one of those earworms that you can’t shake after it gets to you. The song itself was written in 1893 by Harry S Miller and has been performed by the likes of The New Christy Minstrels, Don McLean, Yodeling Slim Clark and even Merle Travis.

No one ever forgets that catchy chorus:

But the cat came back the very next day,

The cat came back, we thought he was a goner,

The cat came back, he just wouldn’t stay away.

or the many ways it has been used over the years. For me, yesterday, on the city streets watching the cat stencil work its way across the street was just plain fun and created the humor woven throughout the short article. The humor delivers the real message that entrepreneurs don’t give up, they keep coming back for more.