Solkatten (The Sun Cat)
When I was a little boy, a long time ago, my siblings and I got to go with our parents to the Copenhagen Zoo. This was a big deal for an eight-year-old at a time when there was no TV or Internet. I had only seen wild animals in pictures in books. After the tigers, lions, elephants, and hippos came an enclosure with a large pond where a group of penguins were swimming around or waddling along the rocky cliff wall that lined the pond. The sun was shining, and crowds of people had gathered at the fence in front of the penguin pond to watch these strange creatures. My dad had a small pocket mirror, as did many people, even masculine men like my father, at that time. He managed to catch the sun in the mirror and placed a sunbeam on the rock wall by the pond. The penguins were delighted and galloped back and forth, in their own peculiar way, chasing the sunbeam as my father let it dance around on the rocks. Perhaps they associated the sunbeam with the reflections of a fish swimming on the surface of a sun-drenched sea. I have never quite understood it.
The people around the pond laughed and applauded. I felt very happy and proud of my dad.

Reflections
I looked for the English word for “solkatt” but found nothing. In a dictionary, solkatt was translated as “reflection of the sun,” which is exactly what it is. At the same time, the Swedish word “solkatt” (sun cat) is a very funny and pleasant description of this phenomenon, whoever came up with it.

God is Light, the Creator who created man in his image. We humans reflect God by creating and developing. We cannot help ourselves, it is impossible, sometimes even necessary and, moreover, not infrequently, a lot of fun.
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Tommy Lindén