Week 9 – How my cat taught me to stop worrying

I woke this morning to find Poupon sound asleep under my left arm. I watched the velvety gray fur on his cheeks move in and out as he breathed. I studied the whiskers splayed atop his eyelids and the tiny satellite dish ears that turned this way and that as they captured the random sounds of the morning.

These are the moments that matter, I think to myself as I lay in my warm bed, listening to the wind.

Take it in.
Enjoy this experience.
You’d miss it if it were gone.

Rather than give in to m...