When addressed, a Gentleman Cat does not move a muscle. He looks as if he hasn't heard.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
Now I become myself. It’s taken time, many years and places.
There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.
How much hope, expectation, and sheer hard work goes into the smallest success! There is no being sure of anything except that whatever has been created will change in time.
I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has become... but there are always a few saving graces and finally they make up for all the bother and distress.