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Mu's Musings...

A Good Day

Today is a good day. We have good furiends who love and support us, Fancy Feast to eat and a box full of lovely crinkly tissue paper in which to nap. We are not afraid, for the love of furiends and family is forever and we shall carry it with us always. Death is but a doorway; it is rebirth into eternal life. And if one stops to think about it--healing is relief from suffering and death is nature's ultimate healing because it ends pain and suffering when all of man's interventions have failed. There is always hope! Hope for life here in this world and on into the next! A day filled with hope is truly a good day!

Changes

It seems that we have lost a bit of weight. One and one half punds to be exact since our vet visit in the spring. Apparently it goes paw in paw with a cancer diagnosis. We do not think about the diagnosis; we have found no expiration date stamped anywhere on our body. We plan to continue living as we have always done! Greet each day and treat it like the gift that it is and it will give back every time! We napped on Mom while she watched a movie this morning. She spent Christmas Eve with us and part of Christmas Day and she has promised to be here all of the day today. None of us really knows if we have a tomorrow in store; we have now and we must be in this moment! This lovely never-ending moment! The only guarantee we have is that there are no guarantees! Change is inevitable and we can try and fight it or we can embrace it. We choose to embrace it and see where it leads.

Today is the first day of the rest of our life!

What does one do upon waking each morning and seeing the beginnings of another glorious day? A good stretch is always in order. A delicious breakfast is a necessity followed by a leisurely bath. Greet your humans benevolently and find a sunny spot for a rest. This is good for the digestion! After that, be a cat! Run, play, sing, dance, meditate and always have a box filled with tissue paper in which to pounce and catnap. Are you getting the picture? Take nothing for granted! Live each day as though it were your last and should it turn out to be your last day, you will have no regrets!