RIP AliCat ~ 3/15/19

We found you about ten years ago when you were pencil-thin and paranoid. You finally left the garage and your cat house after three months and continued to be a sweet and weird cat who ventured forth only when the weather was nice. You loved the sun but you loved your heated cat house the most.

Smokey eventually accepted you, although not as an equal, and you tolerated your secondary position well.

You didn't like being handled and going to the vet was a paralyzing experience.

Last night you barely reacted when I brought you your treat as you lay in your little house and we feared the worst. This morning you were gone. We will miss your sweet, strange, and wonderful little self.❤

Reflections on the beauty and brevity of life ~ 9/27/14

It was another lovely fall day today with temps hitting the 70s. We took a walk in the park but all of our thoughts were on the Engelsman family who just lost their wife, mother, and grandmother suddenly from a brain aneurysm. The entire community is shocked. How quickly a life is snuffed out. She was a vibrant personality soon considering retirement.

So what do we take away from the sudden death of a dear friend? Life is short, precious, and unpredictable. Enjoy each morning that you wake up to experience another day. That is your best day. Embrace those whom you love and spend time with those who love you back. And then find the beauty in every day you have.

Death, or Life

The woods are so inviting - they call me to come, lay down in the leaves to rest and let the myrtle and vines slowly grow over me.

Gravity maintains its gentle, relentless pull;

the desire to remain upright ceases.

My arms expand into the earth as we embrace each other.

The world no longer knows my name

but I move with it through the universe.

The wind and I brush past the flower’s petal,

My song is part of a bird’s melody,

And I dance with stardust on Orion’s Belt.