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Conference misery::feline_v1

Title:Meower Power is Valuing Differences
Notice:FELINE_V1 is moving 1/11/94 5pm PST to MISERY
Moderator:MISERY::VANZUYLEN_RO
Created:Sun Feb 09 1986
Last Modified:Tue Jan 11 1994
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5089
Total number of notes:60366

2883.0. "We choose to give and receive the best gift of all" by PENPAL::TRACHMAN (ExoticSH=Persian in Underwear) Fri Sep 22 1989 13:22

    A friend sent this to me today - he found it in CANINE.  Thought 
    I'd share it with a 'few' cat lovers.



           "Those of us who choose to surround ourselves 
               with lives even more temporary than our own
            Live in a fragile and easily breached circle.
    
            Unable to bridge its awful gaps,
               We still would choose to live no other way.
    
            Unable to comprehend life's necessary plan,
               We must take our comfort in the knowledge that
            Memory is the only true immortality."
                                         
    
                                                                E.T.

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2883.1WR2FOR::CORDESBRO_JOset home/cat_max=infinityFri Sep 22 1989 14:004
    I think that is a wonderful poem Elaine, thanks for sharing it with
    us.
    
    Jo
2883.2Little Fi, Lil, Brutus, Stripeees, Cookie, etc.IAMOK::GERRYHome is where the Cat isFri Sep 22 1989 14:5412
    Elaine,
    
    Thanks for posting that, it has taken me a few hours to be able to
    respond and even now, I've got tears in my eyes trying to respond.  It
    brought back all the pain of losing Fire, and the feelings I had at the
    time.  
    
    But he will always be alive in my memory, and in the beauty of his
    kittens and grandkittens and their offspring.  
    
    cin...
    
2883.3The time goes so quicklyISLNDS::SOBEKFri Sep 22 1989 17:375
    I'm going to pass that thought on to my friend Jan who is feeling
    the still-fresh pain of losing her 15 year old feline family member
    yesterday morning.
    
    Linda  ..who will always treasure the memories
2883.4CRUISE::NDCNancy Diettrich-Cunniff-I wanted it allMon Sep 25 1989 08:469
    I saw a great Calvin & Hobbes last week.  They're sitting under
    a tree and Calvin says "you know, somethimes the world seems like
    a pretty mean place."  Hobbes replies, "That's why animals are so
    soft and huggy."  
      Next frame, Calvin and Hobbs are hugging and Calvin says "Yeah..."
    
    Ain't it the truth...........(thank God)
    
      Nancy DC
2883.5PENPAL::TRACHMANExoticSH=Persian in UnderwearMon Sep 25 1989 13:549
    re: all
    
    I guess it's like having children - they are on loan to their
    parents for a undetermined amount of time; hours, weeks, months,
    years.....  I think that life is enjoying what you have when you
    have it and not spending your time wishing for what you don't have.
    
    
    E.T.