A shift

[baronessekat]

Every now and then you hear the phrase "stop and smell the roses" and you go "ya, ya, I will eventually". Then something happens to make you stop and look around your world with a new persepctive.

I know it sounds silly but my kittens just made me do that.

The weather is finally nice enough that I've been able to keep the kitchen door open to let some fresh air in through the screen door. Now I have two kittens, Tzar (9 months) and Talia (8 months) who have spent the majority of the young lives stuck behind closed doors caused by cold harsh winters. There are only a couple windows they can sit at and look out of at the moment. But right now they are sitting at the screen door of the kitchen just looking out with facination and drinking in every new sight and sound.

Seeing Talia watching a red-winged black bird sitting on the powerlines outside and Tzar watching the neighbors working on their car across the street made me realize that sometimes you really to need to just stop and look out your front door and see the wonders of the world.

Smile at the warbling of the black birds, try not to laugh at the neighbor being stalked by the demon ducks, watch a cloud drift across the sky and be merciful and let the spider that's crawling up the screen door to live.

So to the cynical, the morose, the grumpy and the disenchanted I don't say "stop and smell the roses" I say, watch the world through a kitten's eyes. The world actually can take on a whole new persepctive if you look at it as if you are seeing it all for the first time.

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