A wonderful thread Linn................

Allan my friend, you are so right and as the old saying goes, we get too soon old, and too late smart. It's been a different year for the 'Cat and for many of us who have been around 4 or 5 years or longer, a year where the real world caught up with us. It's inevitable that in any group of people there will the joys and sorrows of this life. Previously we had the joys and a few scares, but in the past year or so we have lost ones we loved, 'Catters and friends. But it does make this place even more like the real world.

The friendship, love, and memories of friends fill our heart and when they leave us, though it is tough at first, the feelings come flooding back and fill our hearts again. I've come to believe that it is the stuff of which our hearts are made. None of these folks will be forgotten and as they have enriched our lives in life, their memories enrich us again after death.......and as we pass on those stories, the tales, the songs, the words we shared, we give to them the final gift of immortality. It's the least we can do for what they have given us.

I got a little computer time in down here in sunny Florida and this thread I just had to post to.......To our friends, to my friends, to all of you have and will continue to fill my heart, may the best be yours....and I thank you for all you have given to me.

Spaw