our world early this morning

The world belonged to them this early morning. (And I wished for some moments for better photographic skills.)

Augustus SweetPants
and Ollie Puffy Pants?!?!
Set the camera to high sensitivity...Olllie attempting to climb the palm tree was too precious for me.
He came down. I started humming and he too hummed


as we listened to this...

The World is Yours :

This is the song that you throw on
When life is feeling rather long
And you're longing for confidence to make it

And these are the words that make you feel
That all your dreams aren't dreams
But real events that simply haven't taken place yet

But if you stare high
The sky will come right down and kiss you
If you keep your head towards the stars
They will assist you

The world is yours
The world is yours

This is the time of night
When all the streetlights rub their waking eyes
The day and night find compromise in dark blue

This is the magic in the air
That whispers, "You are almost there"
The worries, cares, and daydreamers will leave soon

But if you stare high
The sky will come right down and kiss you
If you keep your head towards the stars
They will assist you

The world is yours
The world is yours

Well, this is the song that you throw on
When life is feeling rather long
And you're longing for confidence to make it

And these are the words that make you feel
That all your dreams aren't dreams
But real events that simply haven't taken place yet

But if you stare high
The sky will come right down and kiss you
But if you keep your head towards the stars
They will assist you

The world is yours
The world is yours
What are you waiting for?

The world is yours
The world is yours

Cat Kisses were made and wrapped with the loveliest kitty wishes they were sent out your way!

Ciao everyone!

Spiritual Gathering of Cats without Chopra

I told the cat boys that I was going to go to this event tonight. Sadly they cannot attend because some people could be allergic to their fur but the mere mention of the gathering inspired them to spiritual matters.

They gathered around and within a potted tree.
MrSweetPants assumed the posture of spirituality
with deep focus!
while MrPuffyPants could only assume the posture of cuteness. He does not know Chopra!
Naturally a spiritual gathering of cats calls for a spiritual prayer, which I was happy to offer:

"O Thou Lord of the Kingdom! Though our bodies be gathered here together, yet our spellbound hearts are carried away by Thy love, and yet are we transported by the rays of Thy resplendent face. Weak though we be, we await the revelations of Thy might and power. Poor though we be, with neither goods nor means, still take we riches from the treasures of Thy Kingdom. Drops though we be, still do we draw from out Thy ocean deeps. Motes though we be, still do we gleam in the glory of Thy splendid Sun.
O Thou our Provider! Send down Thine aid, that each one gathered here may become a lighted candle, each one a center of attraction, each one a summoner to Thy heavenly realms, till at last we make this nether world the mirror image of Thy Paradise."

And then the enlightened cats gathered in perfect harmony to make kisses and to send you off with warm feline wishes.

“According to Vedanta, there are only two symptoms of enlightenment, just two indications that a transformation is taking place within you toward a higher consciousness. The first symptom is that you stop worrying. Things don't bother you anymore. You become light-hearted and full of joy. The second symptom is that you encounter more and more meaningful coincidences in your life, more and more synchronicities. And this accelerates to the point where you actually experience the miraculous. (quoted by Carol Lynn Pearson in Consider the Butterfly)”

― Deepak Chopra, Synchrodestiny: Harnessing the infinite power of coincidence to create miracles

Ciao everyone!

living in a thin veneer on tippy toes

I told the cat boys of what I had learned during a talk last night, a talk given by one of the scientists who worked on correcting the Hubble Telescope's vision. You can see him on minute 1:20 of this video. He spoke as a scientist and as a philosopher in awe, how could one not be so when investigating this world, whether microscopically or macroscopically?

So I asked the cat boys if they realized that we lived in a 10 mile veneer shell on the earth, stretching from 2 miles under the oceans to 8 miles above!

They meowed.

We talked, chatted, meowed a lot. Before I knew it we were all tired. So Augustus, Mr Sweet Pants, took advantage of this opportunity to show me how to stretch, I had mentioned to him one day that sitting at a desk made me tired.

And so here is your cat stretch, those of you who sit at a desk....
Mr Puffy Pants Ollie chimed in that one could use the wall to do the same stretch effectively.
And just to out do his brother he added another movement that he calls "Tippy Toes"
I did not want to giggle seeing his little legs.

While this was going on the sly one chose to escape the reading that he was sure would be following!!!
Today's quote is from Loren Acton, the astronaut, who said this when viewing the earth from outer skies:

Looking outward to the blackness of space, sprinkled with the glory of a universe of lights, I saw majesty but no welcome. Below was a welcoming planet. There, contained in the thin, moving, incredibly fragile shell of the biosphere is everything that is dear to you, all the human drama and comedy. That's where life is that's where all the good stuff is.

Well, life is sometimes good, and sometimes great, and quite often not so good, and this changes all the time. But really though there is no place like earth, and our job is to fill it with love every minute of every day.

The cat boys wished everyone good times sprinkled with their lovely kisses and purrs!

Ciao everyone!

Rain was in the forecast (and then part II)

and I shared the news with Mr Puffy Pants.

It did not go over well.

He had an emotional fainting once here

and later here.
I told him that I had nothing to do with it, and that sometimes water had to pour down from the skies.

Now, we go to Part II, which is going to be titled

"What happens between 5 and 7 a.m. on a rainy day"

or, alternatively,

"Sometimes my little wishes come true!"

One of my little wishes is to simply be able to sit on these stairs in a space that is not strangled with demands. On this rainy morning after the cat boys spent a good hour outside that little wish came true because it started to rain and good boys that Ollie and Gussy are, they did not want to get their furs too wet. So, in they came and that is how my wish came true.

I quickly made a cup of tea, ran up the stairs, said a small prayer because I wanted to create that space, sat down on the stairs, and started looking out my hourglass life with my companions about. Of course the big companion was upstairs sleeping.
Mr Sweet Pants made a spot for himself above my head, still not too pleased that he had to be indoors.
And Mr Puffy Pants was playing the game of running up and down, to him every moment is a moment reserved for games.
He decided to investigate the narrow space between the rug and the comforter on the floor.
Does anyone know what that big lump is?
Peek-a-boo! I wonder who that is under the covers...
Two paws?? I wonder whose they are!!!
Mr Sweet Pants wondered about his brother.
Now Mr Sweet Pants is drinking tea.
And now he is absorbed into another world, another wave of rain, the rapid drip drip of the October sky that was oh so blue yesterday had him mesmerized.
Rain
Rain
Rain
He is too precious for words, his little tongue sticks out when he tries to think very hard.
Mr Puffy Pants finds his own corner and
reflects quietly
as I read to him....

O YE PEOPLE THAT HAVE MINDS TO KNOW AND EARS TO HEAR!

The first call of the Beloved is this: O mystic nightingale! Abide not but in the rose-garden of the spirit. O messenger of the Solomon of love! Seek thou no shelter except in the Sheba of the well-beloved, and O immortal phoenix! dwell not save on the mount of faithfulness. Therein is thy habitation, if on the wings of thy soul thou soarest to the realm of the infinite and seekest to attain thy goal.

Later he will recite this to Mr Sweet Pants.

Cat boys send you faithful kisses and lovely wishes...

Ciao!

October skies....

Under these skies we thought about love-
Love in an orange coat...
A squirrel trying to figure it out...
A hummingbird humming of love...
Love in a striped long form...

Always happy when and where there is love.

We reflected upon this:

Know thou of a certainty that Love is the secret of God’s holy Dispensation, the manifestation of the All-Merciful, the fountain of spiritual outpourings. Love is heaven’s kindly light, the Holy Spirit’s eternal breath that vivifieth the human soul. Love is the cause of God’s revelation unto man, the vital bond inherent, in accordance with the divine creation, in the realities of things. Love is the one means that ensureth true felicity both in this world and the next. Love is the light that guideth in darkness, the living link that uniteth God with man, that assureth the progress of every illumined soul. Love is the most great law that ruleth this mighty and heavenly cycle, the unique power that bindeth together the divers elements of this material world, the supreme magnetic force that directeth the movements of the spheres in the celestial realms. Love revealeth with unfailing and limitless power the mysteries latent in the universe. Love is the spirit of life unto the adorned body of mankind, the establisher of true civilization in this mortal world, and the shedder of imperishable glory upon every high-aiming race and nation.

Cat boys sent their love and kisses to all (especially to)

Ciao!

Hug Hug Kiss Kiss Little Hug Little Kiss

I knew Mr Puffy Pants had been watching Nacho Libre when I noticed that he was trying to hug and kiss Mr Sweet Pants.

Ideas forming in his little naughty head:
Action- start casual walk behind Mr Sweet Pants
Closer..
Closer...
Mr Sweet Pants is totally unaware!
Here he comes...
Tackle...

Note Ollie's Puffy Pants...he is like a bear doll! He is trying to hug and kiss Augustus!
Got him!

Nothing like a sneak kiss attack!


Gus and Ols are having a chuckle about this now!
Cat boys send you OOXXox
Ollie says that we shall read next time. Today is for hugging and kissing.


Ciao everyone!