Tigerlilly - Lobsang Rampa

in a pleasant manner after she had read the Pussywillow
stories. Who says cats are dumb creatures!!! Most intelligent
persons have heard something of the history of the Cat People,
how they have been tortured, looked upon as the consorts of
witches—even in certain ages worshipped—but generally had
a hard time. Well if, as may be possible, they have had debts
to pay for past, real or imagined mistakes, ‘humanity’ has seen
to it that they have paid dearly and now they have redeemed
themselves; it is perhaps not generally known that now the
shoe is on the other foot—cats do so much to help humans
that it will take a long time to make up for the harm we have
caused them, and for the work they are presently doing for
humanity. At least I hope I can do my little bit of showing
those who are interested how simple and, yes, rewarding, it
can be if we devote a little more time to a greater understand-
ing of the needs of our ‘little sisters and brothers’ of the cat
world.
Like many others I always enjoy a break from the ordinary
work-a-day life, and this long Easter weekend provides just
that. It helps us to use other parts of our brain, to do different
things, to get out of the rut of the almost robot-like feeling as
one performs the day-to-day essentials but which need no
great intellect, if any at all.
In our case it gives us time to chat and relax for a few
moments, in contrast to rushing out to the post office, collect-
ing the mail and then spending an amazing amount of time
dealing with the letters, by which time half the day is over.
Don't get me wrong, for we of this household receive delight-
ful letters from charming people—I am not making a protest,
merely stating it is nice to have a change in order to get one's
mechanism recharged’.
There is one lady of my acquaintance who is unable to
function at all unless she sits down on a chair, closes her eyes
and completely relaxes herself at intervals. At other times she
will walk out into her garden, which is very private, and potter
around amongst the flower beds, thus achieving the same re-
sult. At the present time she is coping with life under great
stress due to the extreme sickness of two elderly, actually quite
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