Life goes by at a dizzying rate.
With the biggest smile you can muster, try to keep pace with it.
But make time for tranquility and reflection too. Climb into a cardboard box maybe.
Or on the top of a plastic one.
(Note: Having a brother trapped beneath is essential.)
Maybe go to the park with your aunt.
Find humor in dressed-up teddy bears.
Love the life God has given and the people in that life.
Love the people who love cats, even if you don't.
Sometimes there are a lot of them (i.e., cats and people who love them).
Find their good points.
Such as obsessive paw-washing.
And their open-eyed wonder at the beauty around them.
Their ability to doggedly (or should I say cattedly?) put one foot in front of the other and keep going.
The fact that they never say, "Stop that, would you?" when you stalk them with a camera.
I have found that they confine their remarks to "Meow."
(That "Me - Ow" could be communicating personal pain is an idea I have no time for.)
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God Bless.
Carmen
