happy birthday nuzzlebutt, my nuzzleboy!

My dearest Maui, happy birthday

I've been thinking a lot about what to say.

Maui—you were the best cat I've ever known.

After you died little Harry Bezalel came into my life. I saw him and I just had to have the brown haired chocolate desert. Harry Bezalel. It was meant to be.  I found him in a shelter. The light from the fluorescent bulbs above us flickered and caught his eye and in a split second I could see into his soul and I decided he wanted me back. I don't know what I was doing when I finally realized the little gleam in his eye was a merely a reflection of light.

After that there was Boy. We waited together for time to pass through the hour of your death exactly one year later. But it could never be between us. Someone else loved Boy first.

It wasn't love at first sight with Gabriel but I was desperate for love and he had kind eyes framed in thick white eyeliner. And he did this mesmerizing thing with a breath and a purr.

What I have to say now I should probably say soon because I know you hated other cats. I've never smelled, lo witnessed, anything near like your loathing toward other cats; so to avoid any hurt feelings I should let you know right now that the point of talking about all the cats who have attempted to replace you is the point. It has taken a handful of cats to help me live without the one that's you.

I miss you nuzzleface.

Love,

your human




april 30 2011

fondly

the world's greatest cat remembered ...just because I love him

This photo sums it up. He lived the dream. A dream he was far too conscious of to be considered just an ordinary cat.

I thought about you today, and yesterday too.

I remember the day I took this picture of you, nuzzleface ...

There Is Nothing About You I Don't Love

I'm even OK with the fact that you are not Maui ...

Happy Birthday, Maui, My Little Nuzzlebutt

Dear nuzzleface, I hope this doesn't upset Jesus but I hope you're the first thing I see when I get to heaven! No wait, this might work: I get there and I see you both right at the same time - but when I see you both at the same time Jesus' big toe is perhaps inched ever so closer to me than you. I do notice this in awe and reverence indeed - and being time is probably not measured in heaven as on earth - I finagle a little glance in your direction at the exact same time I see Jesus and yet somehow through some heavenly time trick I see Jesus first at the same time I see you. And then Jesus gives me the nod - and you come running into my arms. How do I miss you nuzzleboy; God knows.


Love forever,
your human

Just Because I love Him

 

well

Maui's shrine has moved. His physical shrine that is. Right now it's in several boxes packed away with stuff that doesn't even relate to his shrine. And that's OK, finally. For now.

Maui's blog wrestles for numero uno on Google with some cat litter company who touts their litter as the "best". If I weren't so selfish I would almost be tempted to ... nah.


Maui is the world's greatest cat and I intend to keep him there.


Maui Maui Maui.


he lives, and I have nothing else to say ...

UPDATE: That didn't last long. His shrine is back on a wall. And I added stuff to it.