Joke: Cat Goes to Heaven

Tokoyo Cat Cafe where for $10 customers can play with their favorite cat - Image by Getty Images via Daylife

From Denny: Today's my birthday so I thought I'd mellow out and lay back on the early AM posting. Found this over at Jokes.net, enjoy!

Cat Goes to Heaven

One day a cat dies of natural causes and goes to heaven. There he meets the Lord Himself. The Lord says to the cat, "You lived a good life and if there is any way I can make your stay in Heaven more comfortable, please let Me know." The cat thinks for a moment and says, "Lord, all my life I have lived with a poor family and had to sleep on a hard wooden floor." The Lord stops the cat and says, "Say no more," and a wonderful fluffy pillow appears.

A few days later, six mice are killed in a tragic farming accident and go to heaven. Again, there is the Lord there to great them with the same offer. The mice answer, "All of our lives we have been chased. We have had to run from cats, dogs and even women with brooms. Running, running, running; we're tired of running. Do you think we could have roller skates so we don't have to run anymore?" The Lord says, "Say no more," and fits each mouse with beautiful new roller skates.

About a week later the Lord stops by to see the cat and finds him snoozing on the pillow. The Lord gently wakes the cat and asks him, "How are things since you got here?"

The cat stretches and yawns and replies, "It is wonderful here. Better than I could have ever expected. And those 'Meals On Wheels' you've been sending by are the best!"



Cat, Roller skates, Heaven, Family, Pets, Lord, jokes, Humor

How Do You Cultivate Inner Happiness?

This is what I've featured today over at Beautiful Illustrated Quotations, my Quotes blog:

From Denny: What I so enjoy about quotes are two things: they are short, and therefore, easy meditations and also they often speak a facet of the truth in an amazing way! This is the first quote I've run across that discusses more than cultivating personal harmony or doing outward actions to help cultivate happiness. When you read between the lines what this author is talking about is acquiring a particular attitude toward self BEFORE you begin cultivating happiness - pretty cool take on it!

Quote

“Happiness is really a deep harmonious inner satisfaction and approval.” — Francis Wilshire

Photo by h.koppdelaney @ flickr

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A Spiritual Perspective: Michael Jackson

Featured over at The Social Poets today is a post about Michael Jackson:

A Spiritual Perspective: Michael Jackson

Photo by frdgr @ flickr

Photography Locations Part 3

Puffins on Isle of May Image by kfjmiller via Flickr

Photography Locations Part 3: "A beautiful island located in Scotland's Firth of Forth, the Isle of May is a true delight for bird lovers, nature lovers, artists and photographers alike. Like bees seeking nectar, day trippers swarm to the island and spread out in search of their own spiritual nourishment.

The Isle of May is indeed a sanctuary for our modern day souls. First used by monks in the ninth century, the island has now been reclaimed by nature and provides a home for millions of sea birds, but perhaps most notably the puffin.

With crags and cliffs that rise 150ft from the sea, the dramatic coastline of the tiny island of May is bedecked with thousands of nesting fulmar, kittiwake, shag, and numerous other sea birds. The rocky plateau atop the island is pocked with puffin burrows and strewn with clumps of white sea campion, grasses, mosses, sedges and lichens. Drifts of pink thrift nestle into craggy crevices and all around there is evidence of Man's worship and reverence for this beautiful place."

By Aunty @ HubPages

From Denny: Interesting read about a wildlife sanctuary in Scotland that is a delight for photographers. She also informs you as to what to bring and how best to photograph in that situation. Gorgeous photos too!

THANK YOU! (and "me" photo)

Great Grandparents: Colba Lyon and Phoebe Jayne of
Martha, Lawrence, Kentucky, their wedding day in 1869.



Denny Lyon in 1980's indoor home portrait, Atlanta, Georgia

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