Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Liebster Award!!!

Well, it is not everyday that one wakes up to an award, is it? So today is/was a special day for us.



I got into my office, turned on the computer, placed my coffee next to it, various thoughts were forming in my head and I was determined to use my consciousness to sort them out and organize what I felt was unorganized. I did not want randomness. I think I was not happy on the inside but had convinced myself that I was. Do you ever have that feeling? I was not thrilled about .... while immensely thankful about ....

Well, this condition did not last very long thanks to one of my favorite blogger friends, dear Mette, who awarded us the Liebster award! Yay! I sensed clouds lifting and rays of sun coming through, light flowing. Thank you Dear Mette.... you made our day.

To honor this award, I decided to do a photo shoot of the furry beauties, and so I present to you today more photos of the boy beauties.

When I told Augustus to pose he did not hesitate, he realized the significance of this event. He lay on his side and asked me if the pose was good.

Ahem, ahem, I liked the way those leaves draped above but I wanted more.
"How's this?", he wanted to know. Ahem, ahem, ...more!
"How's this, the one-sided gaze, pretending like I don't see you?", I told him that he was on the right track.
"How's this?, the love collapse?". "Oh ya!". "I may have to eat you now", I said,
to which he replied with his baby smile.
He finally felt too shy and asked me to stop. I could not ask for more cuteness.
Ginger Puff was listening from a short distance away using his sensitive swivel ears.
He told me that he did not want to pose today...sometimes he feels subconscious of himself!
"He was thinking", he said.
I did manage to catch this wishful look that happens every time
a bird flies overhead disrupting his train of cat thoughts.

Cat boys extended their profoundest thanks to Metscan and all the friends who stop by for a friendly hi.

Augustus used his mental energies to send you best wishes for this first week in January of 2012.
Ollie sent discreet kisses.




The award is given to bloggers with fewer than 200 followers.
The rules:
1. ) You are to thank the giver, who gave it to you.
2. ) Reveal your 5 blogger picks, and let them know, by leaving a comment on their blog.
3. ) Copy and paste the award on your blog.
4. ) Hope, that the people, you have sent the award to, will forward it to their 5 favorite bloggers.

My 5 liebster picks are:
1)ShannonAnn
2)up and down town
3)Samantha June
4)Grace
5)Violetta

Ciao everyone!

PS-cat reflections will resume shortly the boys promised

Thursday, December 29, 2011

You might be under the impression

that the cat boys have sighted a prey! And you might be right!

MrSweetPants barely moved when he heard or saw something that I could not see. A low crouch
got MrPuffyPants all excited, his eyes wide open, surely it must be a monster!
SweetPants lowers his crouch
only to peak PuffyPants' curiosity.

You might think that one set of kitty ears is delicious!
Let me tell you that two sets of kitty ears are many times more delicious, not just twice delicious!!

"Oooh, I want to see", meowed Ollie.
So exciting!!!
Kitty boys lunge toward the invisible monster and then pretend that he escaped.
I think they were just playing, that is a big part of what they do each day besides making kisses and sending out love messages to people.


The precious dudes wanted to meditate on LOVE and so I found these quotes, which they enjoyed tremendously.

"Love is the highest law in this great universe of God. Love is the law of order between simple essences, whereby they are apportioned and united into compound substances in this world of matter. Love is the essential and magnetic power that organizes the planets and the stars which shine in infinite space. Love supplies the impulse to that intense and unceasing meditation which reveals the hidden mysteries of the universe."
Abdul-Baha, Persian spiritual teacher

"Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being."
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We are nearing the end of one year and the beginning of another. "May love rule", roared the kitties!

Ciao everyone!

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

The scenery here is hardly ever dull...

A clean crow high up on the Eucalyptus...

MrPuffyPants glowing in the sun

and listening, observing carefully, curiously...

His beautifulness MrSweetPants looking at me with one eye...

and then closing both eyes so he can listen better.
I read to them (one at a time) the following:


“The world, this palpable world, which we were wont to treat with the boredom and disrespect with which we habitually regard places with no sacred association for us, is in truth a holy place, and we did not know it. Venite, adoremus.”

(Pierre Chardin de Teilhard)

Cat boys send kisses for you along with their heartfelt christmas wishes!

Monday, December 19, 2011

On the way to work this morning

I came across my favorite little bird..hop, hop, hop, tss, tss, tss, it fluttered from spot to spot, so fast I could not really see. I was about to just walk past him or her when I realized that I could not just do that. I grabbed my kitty camera for a few shots.



Earlier in time, yesterday, MrSweetPants was reposing and when I decided to photograph his beautifulness


he gave me the look that said I am reading your mind!


Somewhat earlier the same day I was with MrPuffyPants on a stroll. He took me back to the backyard where he told me that he was my leader. I was puzzled by this because I already knew that!


We meditated individually on this:

"Although a brief example hath been given concerning the beginning and ending of the relative world, the world of attributes, yet a second illustration is now added, that the full meaning may be manifest.
For instance, let thine Eminence consider his own self; thou art first in relation to thy son, last in relation to thy father. In thine outward appearance, thou tellest of the appearance of power in the realms of divine creation; in thine inward being thou revealest the hidden mysteries which are the divine trust deposited within thee.
And thus firstness and lastness, outwardness and inwardness are, in the sense referred to, true of thyself, that in these four states conferred upon thee thou shouldst comprehend the four divine states, and that the nightingale of thine heart on all the branches of the rosetree of existence, whether visible or concealed, should cry out: "He is the first and the last, the Seen and the Hidden...." These statements are made in the sphere of that which is relative, because of the limitations of men. Otherwise, those personages who in a single step have passed over the world of the relative and the limited, and dwelt on the fair plane of the Absolute, and pitched their tent in the worlds of authority and command -- have burned away these relativities with a single spark, and blotted out these words with a drop of dew. And they swim in the sea of the spirit, and soar in the holy air of light. Then what life have words, on such a plane, that "first" and "last" or other than these be seen or mentioned! In this realm, the first is the last itself, and the last is but the first.

"In thy soul of love build thou a fire
And burn all thoughts and words entire. [Rumi]" " (Seven Valleys)


MrPuffyPants sent you kisses.

Wishing all love and joy...

Ciao!

Thursday, December 15, 2011

Smack in the middle of the city

early in the morning


two cat boys are sending messages to each other from across the ways.

I don't know what they could be up to because that changes on a daily basis.
We continue with our morning rounds that commenced in the dark hours of pre-dawn.

MrSweetPants winks at me,
smiles,
and sniffs the fresh air. He loves being out in the quiet of early mornings!
MrPuffyPants has the serious look on his face, the squirrels are running all around him, doing pirouttes. This is because I throw shelled sunflower seeds on the ground so the squirrels come and MrPuffyPants can play.
He is only one kitty and can only chase one squirrel at a time!
Here he is presenting his woes to me and wants to know if there is a solution.
MrSweetPants arrives on the scene, he wants to know what is up.

I noted the pair together, and sensed that they had the posture of anticipating a reading coming on, and they were so right!

We reflected on this passage selected by MrSweetPants the night before:

"That most precious of gifts is attainment unto His unfailing guidance, that the inner reality of humankind should become as a niche to hold this lamp; and when the scattering splendours of this light do beat against the bright glass of the heart, the heart's purity maketh the beams to blaze out even stronger than before, and to shine in glory on the minds and souls of men....." (compilation)

Cat boys them made kisses and blew them in the fresh air with their best wishes....

Ciao everyone!

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

I am thinking of a title...

I don't think that I am the only one who is thrown into the fast December river, and then of course, my two furry companions take advantage of me in such very moments. One second Augustus is leading me to somewhere and in another moment I find that he has disappeared sitting calmly way up on the wall!!! He has been enjoying this lately quite a bit!
Augustus scoping.
Augustus enjoying the rising sun in the cool morning hour.
Ollie is down below with me, also basking in the sun that makes his orange fur glow.
I am now chuckling at his cute profile.
Now Ollie is leading me. "We have to go", he meows.
Out on the street where I follow the fur ball around our glances fall on these spiky balls,
and the remaining leaves
that have caught some ginger cat's eyes.
I remember that I wanted to title this post "For the love of light" but I did not have any reading selected because that is usually SweetPants' job on Tuesdays.

MrPuffyPants then chose this reading for our daily meditation:

"O Son of Generosity! Thou wert in the deserts of nonbeing and, by means of the earth of command, I made thee to appear in the world of possession. I charged all the atoms of dependence and the realities of creation with thy training, so that, before thou didst issue from the womb of thy mother, I ordained for thee two fountains of bright milk. I appointed eyes to guard thee, set thy love in all hearts, and with pure generosity I reared thee under the shadow of My Mercy, and protected thee with the essence of My Grace. The purpose of all this was to enable thee to arrive at Our Eternal Might and to deserve Our Invisible Favors..." (Hidden Words)

I complimented Ollie on his choice of reading. I reminded him that all the atoms of dependence were there for his training, that his love was set in all hearts. He accepted the compliment graciously and also naughtily.

"Go ahead", I said. "Make kisses and blow them in the air", and that he did.
Ciao everyone! We wish you a splendid week!