My Hopes and Dreams for 2003

by Sage Lucinda BugBug Milliken

Mews Dear Diary, I have been sitting here contemplating the coming New Year, and wondering, and hoping and dreaming. Looking back over last year, it was okay, but not purrrfect. It was a hard year for my meowmie, although I know she t ried to make it a good year fur all of us kitties. Hewmins don't always tell us when they ae having big problems, but somehow mew just know.

So looking to the future, I wonder what I can do. I certainly hope it will be a better year for my Meowmie. Certainly she deserves it if any one does. I know she has something called financial problems. It seems hewmins often worry about those kinds of problems. But we cats know that all things will always work out fur the best. I guess a lot of hewmins have such problems.

I think to myself, "What can I do to help?" Well, it always seems to come back to the same basic thing. The thing that we cats seem to do best. I make sure that I spend special time with my meowmie each day. If she comes in and starts right in working on something. I hop up in her lap, and make her stop and hold me and pet me. Then I purr and purr. I know this is really good fur her. It makes her slow down, and purring is always so relaxing to our hewmins. Sometimes I have to be furry bold and purrsistent. She will shoo me away, or put me down on the floor. I will just hop right back up until she finally gets the idea.

I would hope that my Meowmie would be happier and healthier in this coming year too. She seems to have made a good start. I think she is happier this year than she has been in a long time. No doubt all of our purring has really helped her a lot.

Well, Dear Diary, what else could I wish fur the New Year? I hope and dream that all homeless kitties will find a home, or a least a better life. I hope and dream that all hewmins will learn to love and care properly fur the pets that they have. Certainly my hewmin is a very good and caring hewmin, as are all those hewmins who have memfurs in CLAW. But I look around me each day in my neighborhood and realize that so many of my fellow beings are not cared for properly.

I hope and dream that the terrorism in the world will somehow be stopped. That the wars which hewmins wage will be no more. And that we will all have better lives. I hope and dream that I can do my own small part to make all of this come true.

Until later, dear Diary, I remain faithfully yours, Sage Lucinda BugBug