3/5 ~ SPIKE ~ AMPS ~ 217 Oldtimer.."look"

Spike is doing well and enjoying sunny days in his glassed in porch. When it was in the 20's outside the porch was a nice warm 70. I even sat out there with my afternoon coffee. Best money I ever spent having windows put out there! His number is a big high for him today but Im sure it will come down. Hes been mostly blue and green. I love that hes now pretty consistant...makes life so easy for me.
Choy-Foong Wong posted this letter on fb this week and it was so moving Im sure she wont mind if I post it here.

Letter from an Older Cat

Posted by: Maggie & Mousey Tongue (IP Logged)

Date: February 14, 2006 11:06PM



I Am Your Cat
Author Unknown

I am your cat, and I have a little something I'd like to whisper in

your ear.

I know that you humans lead busy lives. Some have to work, some have

children to raise. It always seems like you are running here and

there, often much too fast, often never noticing the truly grand

things in life.

Look down at me now, while you sit there at your computer. See the way

my eyes look at yours?

They are slightly cloudy now. That comes with age. The gray hairs are

beginning to ring my soft muzzle.

You smile at me; I see love in your eyes. What do you see in mine? Do

you see a spirit? A soul inside, who loves you as no other could in

the world? A spirit that would forgive all trespasses of prior wrong

doing for just a simple moment of your time?

That is all I ask. To slow down, if even for a few minutes to be with

me. So many times you have been saddened by the words you read on that

screen, of others of my kind, passing.

Sometimes we die young and oh so quickly, sometimes so suddenly it

wrenches your heart out of your throat.

Sometimes, we age so slowly before your eyes that you may not even

seem to know until the very end, when we look at you with grizzled

muzzles and cataract clouded eyes.

Still the love is always there, even when we must take that long

sleep, to run free in a distant land.

I may not be here tomorrow; I may not be here next week.

Someday you will shed the water from your eyes, that humans have when

deep grief fills their souls, and you will be angry at yourself that

you did not have just "One more day" with me.

Because I love you so, your sorrow touches my spirit and grieves me.

We have NOW, together. So come, sit down here next to me, and look

deep into my eyes. What do you see? If you look hard and deep enough

we will talk, you and I, heart to heart.

Come to me not as "alpha" or as "owner" or even "Mom or Dad," come to

me as a living soul and stroke my fur and let us look deep into one

another's eyes, and talk. I may tell you something about the fun of

batting toys, or I may tell you something profound about myself, or

even life in general.

You decided to have me in your life because you wanted a soul to share

such things with. Someone very different from you, and here I am.

I am a cat, but I am alive. I feel emotion, I feel physical senses,

and I can revel in the differences of our spirits and souls. I do not

think of you as a "Cat on two feet" -- I know what you are. You are

human, in all your quirkiness, and I love you still.

Now, come sit with me. Enter my world, and let time slow down if only

for 15 minutes. Look deep into my eyes, and whisper into my ears.

Speak with your heart, with your joy and I will know your true self.

We may not have tomorrow, and life is oh so very short....

 

Morning to you and nice Spike report always wonderful to see you guys and thanks for sharing that letter its just so beautiful, moving and so true made me cry actually but thats Ok

 

Thank you, Janice, I needed that. :YMHUG:

Have a great Caturday!

 

what a wonderful post ... Thank you!

 

Thanks for sharing that post, Janice. It brought tears to my eyes, too.

Enjoy the weekend with your wonderful Spike.

Ella & Rusty

 

OMG Janice how moving!! Thanks for that post--That is why I am home so much now, more than I ever have been, after all these 2 will be 15 soon..I want to spend as much time as I can with them...So if I dont go away, leave them all day, seem like they are ny whole life, Guess What?? They are!! as they will not always be here--So Carpe Diem with my furbabies..! That's me right nbow--Thanks WCF for putting words to our feelings
Spike is doing well & for that I am happy--Many Hugs from Moonie & I!!

 

Thank You Janice,for wonderfull post!
uuuh,it's to touching ! It's so truth - live is to short!
Glad Spike is doing well.
All the best to You & fam!

 

that was so beautiful it moved me to tears.
thank you for sharing it, Janice!

 

Janice thanks for posting that. It is so true. As I write this I have one of my kitties on my lap. Ally always comes to me when I'm on the computer to be picked up and help. Even though it can sometimes be challenging to type at these times, I welcome it, its such a warming feeling. cat_pet_icon Just a reminder that we should never forget that feeling. Thanks again. :smile:

Hope you and Spike are doing well.

jan and sara