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I suppose anyone seeing this got my news here, that we are praying for Conan's safe return from what we hope is a forest walk. Here is a blog post I have written for everyone else. All prayers, positive energy, and help are appreciated genuinely and strongly. Some say their cats return after a month or much longer, especially over summer. I don't like being without my loved-ones for a day but keep reminding myself this positive outcome is the likely one! His picture is everywhere we can put it, even if we doubt he approaches people or any roads. He catches food easily, as much as we prefer he doesn't at home and fed here! https://cmriedel.wordpress.com/2017/0...

After remembrance of Love and despite awaiting our Conan's safe return at the moment, August 4th represents a family day to celebrate. Whether I call Ron my spouse or fiance, we have been together seventeen years today. We decided to declare ourselves a dedicated couple on this day and we have remained together these seventeen years. Happy seventeenth anniversary to us! May the gift of Conan being home come soon. Yours, Carolyn.

Prayer from friends, family, and neighbours is encouraging and heartening because it helps and because it is touching, how many of you care. I won't doubt I received impressions correctly, connecting with our Conan O'Brien (his fuller name, in honour of a favourite comedian) and signs around us were wishful thinking. But today is a sacred day and my courage and faith are renewed, as well as more positive signs that mine & Ron's hope are right. On July 31, 3 years ago, Conan's white brother, Love (the beauty in my photograph with me) died: I just sat by Love's resting place and was reminded we have good reason to believe Conan's absence will turn out well, even if our nature is to worry until we hold Conan safely at home for ourselves. We are encouraged not to not spend the wait stressed out with undesirable questioning. I guess that is for nothing as soon as we see the outcome is good.

I asked God to keep us seeing and knowing this will turn out well. A little orange butterfly fluttered to my housecoat. I offered my hand and he accepted. I offered a finger and he walked to it, where I enjoyed meeting him. I asked if he has a message for me, that Conan is alright and will be home. That I should burst through the habit to worry. After a good leisurely acquaintance delighting in this beautiful insect up close, I specified that if I have his message right, he could fly off my hand, knowing I have received it. He did, onto a flower on Love's resting place. Butterflies had never alighted upon me before. I loved meeting him and seeing his antennae work.

Here is to courage! To break past emotional weight and await Conan more calmly, determined about the happy reunion we and so many others, intentionalize and pray! Here is to remembering our Love today, who was in physical life with us almost 4 years. His sisters and brother are 6 and remind us of him in varaious ways, as well as their 7 year-old small Mom. Feeling gratitude, hope, and encouragement mixed with remembrance and love today, Carolyn & Ron.

Thank you so much! I especially appreciate that you deem this family member as important as other things for which we ask large numbers to join in prayer. Yes, to continue pampering my boy! Your belief is also a balm, that you think it's very likely a first-time explorer could stray around and come home unharmed and no problem. :) Love, your friend, Carolyn.

Not yet. I will say. None of my cats have done this. That is why my first reaction was fear and anguish that something bizarre took place but it was daylight and he wasn't without us calling him for long. Ron feels Conan took this easier opportunity to try it; exploring however long or far he wishes. Daylight tells us he is okay. Had he been injured by a cat or something, he would return. He must be on vacation by choice. Ron also points out I was away more than usual last week, with everyone cooped up and Conan didn't know July 13 was the last day cleaning out my parents' house. He also feels Conan is uncomfortable in hot weather. What stops him from worrying is that it's summer. This is when a cat takes off if he gets in the mood.

I took heart in your immediate prayer and counted on you telling everyone you know: the beacons of the prayer added to by as many as are willing. You have such a long reach of contacts. Prayer chains are unhesitatingly launches for all kinds of things. A grown cat is capable of getting home from the woods without a problem; which reassures us. However we need to see him for sure and this is one of the worst loved-ones we could lose; no casual prayer. I believe in it working and that it is even better if added to. Conan is our son. We need him for a good long time and love him every minute. We cannot lose a second kitten before their time and Conan comforts us from Love being gone early. He resembles his brother very much while being orange and leaner. It is time to be happy and unworried this summer, with such a good attitude about closing our family house last week. I told God it is because these cats are my home. Their faces, smiles, and life with them is what matters. That has to stay true.

I imagined you asked others to reach out with their hearts and voices too. We extended our efforts, at a somewhat local website where I ask people to pray for his return and about 200 people have read it. Yesterday we put posters at the nearest stores and campground. Not silently tacking them but speaking with people at each place and requesting their prayers and loving energy as well. Our Conan O'Brien has to be safe and come home soon. Being gone for days might be okay for some, who encouraged us with that likely possibility but we want to be with our cats every day and see that they are well every day. Love, Carolyn.

I'm requesting prayers, positive energy, protection, guiding energy, meditation, and intuitive communication so that our dear cat Conan comes safely home very soon. There is a need for prayers and all of this in British Columbia, our westernmost province. Forest fires are awful there, with people, animals, and wild animals displaced and distraught. I request prayers, protection, healing, and comfort for all of them and a safe, good, positive outcome.

Although it was hard work and emotional to close my childhood home last Thursday, we left no belongings in haste or danger and were not in fear of our lives. It is nothing like people and animals evacuating with what they can and they need our hearts and love. Please help them and think of them especially. Ron & I are sure my beloved boy is safe and taking a walking tour we didn't expect of him. We ask help for his continued protection and that Conan gets home safe and soon but in British Columbia, the situation is urgent. With love in Manitoba, Carolyn.

How long was your kitty away? None of ours has done this. Hearing "my cat returned after this many days" encourages our belief that this was a holiday trip. The weather has only started to rain now and the cats were cooped up five days in a row, until Thursday night, while I cleaned out my parents' house.

Thank you, my dear Erin! Now that I have prayers from your family too: the power and grace to protect him and guide him home safely is stronger and stronger. I hope more add to our prayer. As we wait, happy birthday to my dear cat Spirit, very loved by Conan, who is thirteen today!

I am scared and feel awful but will not grieve because unlike Conan's brother, Love, he did not die. It is the discomfort of waiting for him to come home and hoping nothing happened amiss. We will not give up faith that he will return all right. All our love, Carolyn & Ron.

Please help us empower the prayer that our dear son and cat, Conan, is home safely and as soon as possible. It will be a joyous celebration of his Dad, Spirit's birthday tomorrow that he is back with us. Spirit will have a good pampered birthday and showering of love but it will soar for us and free our hearts if Conan is here with us too. As best as we can, he is enjoying a sunny green day for the last of being age twelve.

Reading the above is perhaps useful in not having to describe that my cats are my children and that losing any of them before an elderly age would be the worst thing to happen to Ron & I. Second closest to me, after my orange Petal, is her brother Conan. You recall that their while brother, Love died of heart failure when they were not quite 4, three years ago. In July! My childhood cat died in July. What a terror to find that Conan, whose presence comforts the absence of Love, is missing since Thursday afternoon!!!! He is a joy and my living cats are the reason I could confidently help close my childhood home that day. I cannot lose another of our four kittens early or young.

Conan disappeared in daylight hours, with little harm that could have happened. Please build a powerful prayer by adding your hearts to our plea: that our dear orange & white Conan comes home safely and soon! Even though he has never done so, Ron is reassuring that the likeliest explanation is, sometimes in summer a cat decides to take an exploring trip. I hurt because this is unlike him but it seems the most probable. No cars, no preditors at that hour and we are heavily populated. No body on the highway because I checked all that way anyway. I doubt he's trapped in a neighbour's building but will post a sign at store that everyone please check. With Love and gratitude to any power we have to help Conan get home: Carolyn, Ron, & Our Kitties!

Here is a post I wrote about that at my blog. Thank you for boosting, sharing, and also remembering wonderful things with me that are happy to talk about, like our memorable cat Thumbelina! https://cmriedel.wordpress.com/2017/0...

Competing with gardening has been the unfortunate, emotionally-hard need for my parents to leave our family home. Most people wish their parents and descendents can go on living there so we can keep visiting it. I have been out of there a long time and know our belongings feel more like home than the rooms without them. For me the landscape of our house and yard is what looks and feels like home.

Especially with my dear, favourite cottonwood tree. It might be at least 800 years old and has a triple trunk! It is very tall, comforting, and positive. I feel it has always protected us and while the inside began to feel suffocating with clutter, the outside always feels great. Mom's heart is in the frontyard where she constantly added small trees, flowers, which wonderfully gave them privacy and shade on a city street. I took photos of them for her. Not least, is our 21 year-old cat and one of the love's of my life: Thumbelina Sandy. Her resting place is in the backyard.

I only have two more weeks to drop in a couple more times and see it. Her spirit is with me of course but sharing this isn't about what I can still do. Sharing this is dealing with what I am reluctantly parting from. She's been physically gone since July 21, 2003 so I can do this but will certainly miss our very alive cottonwood tree too. Thumbelina was born July 2, 1982! Today is her birthday! Happy birthday to you, my dearest girl! I can and will bring flowers to her resting place today. Ron & I will help Mom pack up what she still needs to do and I'm sure we'll all enjoy the new place. This is about the difficulty of leaving the original one.
Yours from the heart, Carolyn.

If people of the world don't remember July 1st by now, it was very well-advertised this year. Our constitution was formed on July 1, 1867. This is our 150th birthday! Happy 150th Canada Day! Ron & I watched fireworks at our town's activity field. Were cleaning and gardening at home and are busy today, so only went in time to lounge by a fire a little while before that sky show.

People really need to start including vegetarian options wherever anyone hands out hotdogs, burgers, or free food! Vendors too. In fact they had run out of everything but popcorn sooner than they expected. Those staying just for fireworks and arriving for them seemed few. We were comfortable and brought home a lot of glo-sticks for our kitties. I sang the national anthem in English there and in the original French at home.

My sweeties are sleeping in with Ron and birthday McCartney is here. I told him your wishes. He likes knowing hearing messages and pays attention while I tell him. He loved the happy birthday song we sang last night very much. He watched me, with Ron in the background, sing and approached my hand with his head near the close of it. All our cats have been raised to love the extra attention and special sparkle of their birthdays. Thank you again for adding to it! All pets deserve to be treasured like this.

Links to longest-living cats are here. His kitties went out but lived inside, like ours and included some interesting things in their food. Ron gives our cats in the vicinity of his breakfast, snatches of egg. I like giving them vegetables. We need to start growing or buying asparagus for ourselves but have offered them other greens. Reading this has me inspired to make it a staple, even if Ron says our grain-free canned food provides a lot of real vegetables. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creme_P...

I am very happy and relieved for Florida citizens about the rain. Your neighbour should take better care so intuitive people like you focus on animals who are without a home but how endearing to know how you are that way too. I tried speaking with neighbours, whose cat stuck with us all day (the one who joined us for Christmas eve two years ago) until he disappeared last year. I didn't seem to get across that pets aren't thrilled being outside 24/7 and want to be with THEM and have a break indoors. Some people really think they're doing their pets favours by keeping them out all the time. My cats clamour to get out and enjoy a walk or expedition around but I tested this. Given the choice by leaving the door of the library ajar or that of the house when insects aren't around; I find them relaxed inside, after no later than two hours!

Thank you, Erin! He is right beside me in his own office chair, just the way he had when he was raised his first three years by my youngest brother. We love McCartney Hendrix very much! He has had photos with me and of him around our lovely green yard. Soon he will have tuna! :-) I'll tell him Aunt Erin said hello from Florida where she has a kitty too. I have heard the longest-living cats were in Texas at 38, 34, and 32! I would be thrilled with something like 24 but am heartened that there is longer for this species of my children than I dreamed. :-) Love, Carolyn & Ron.

HAPPY SEVENTEENTH BIRTHDAY to our very dear Siamese: McCARTNEY!!!! We love you very much and are happy to spend this whole special day pampering you!

Happy birthday to my highest childhoold favourite, Corey Hart! I guess my fellow-trilingual Canadian is fifty-five today!

Ariana could do nothing but return to Florida while investigations and medical care got underway but she has released a heartfelt statement and has found a way to help. In fact, she is organizing a benefit concert June 4 and is returning to Manchester next week! It must be a horror for people to be harmed at your gathering so there is healing for 23 year-old Ariana as well. https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz...

Goodness, this group isn't being checked much lately. Well, all I can do is persevere in leaving content at which to look. You may have seen the sad evening news that I just saw. Unfortunately the missing 15 year-old concert-goer, Olivia was found but she was not alive. She was killed by ISIS terrorists in Manchester, England too. I send my love to these people and am spreading this word on the social platform that I have, so you may send love too.

I was saying to someone only an hour ago that although the theme of this internet community is books, personal cameraderie (and public news) aren't off-topic. To the contrary, acquainting people and whatever we might like to share is the mission; with books as a conversation starter in common. Thus even in my small group of 18 people so far, I occasionally share about myself, love it when you do the same, and report international news so that we can do what we can, to discuss it or send our love where it is needed. Anywhere we have a public platform that can send information, education, healing, and love: what better use for it?

What happened at Ariana Grande's concert in Manchester, north England last night was a solo attack by an ISIS member after all. Twenty-two people are dead, a fifteen year-old girl named OLIVIA is missing and her Mother has been asking hospitals any anyone with information to connect any dots they can to bring her daughter home.

Ariana has cancelled her world tour and is distressed at the senseless loss of twenty-two of her fans doing nothing but absorbing a night of joyous energy through a beloved artist's music. Two of the victims are children; the youngest an eight yera-old girl! These families, friends, and music-lovers need our healing, prayer, and strong energy. Let's send it to them now, each in our own way. I was happy to use my space to do that and report what happened, so these children and people do no go unnoticed.