Every once in a while i recall a past incident or better yet - a very interesting experience... and i still can't help but wonder about this one... In fact... i just can't quite figure it out - definitly one of those "shake your head" things......a divine moment perhaps?... One afternoon, i had been visiting a good friend for lunch and after, as i was just driving home... me and my little car were merrily motoring along on busy 12th street in the right lane nearing the intersection of Clark Drive... on 12th there are 4 lanes of endless traffic that go along at quite a clip... 2 lanes going west and 2 lanes going east... it's one of those Vancouver streets that never stops it seems... As i'm driving heading east something happens to catch my attention to the left side out of the corner of my eye (on the other opposite of the road!)... right at the edge of the sidewalk is a tiny, little tabby kitten that is about to step down off the curb and onto the road... and ultimately into the heavy traffic... yikes! I'll never forget that graphic-scene... the kitten was sooo small and about the same height as the curb... which meant if it did continue that step down, it was sure to take a tumble head-over-paws right into the traffic! It was inevitable - a sure-thing.... Now... really?... What was he or she thinking...? And to this day i still can't believe that i happened to catch this "incident' as i was roaring by (at about 35 km)... How was it that in that split-second-moment i happened to see this as i was going by so fast... it was kind of weird... it was almost as if time slowed down a tad - just for me to witness this... it was quite terrifying yet so graphically real... And so as my brain computes the doomed outcome... feeling so helpless 'cause i'm driving, i screamed right out loud to the universe and to the little kitty now behind me, "Noooooooooo!!! STOP!!!! Right NOW!!!" After my outburst i was now near the intersection of Clark Street... feeling much dread with terrible thought... OMG! I recklessly switched into the left lane and swung left into a gas station and parked... i jumped out of the car and raced down the sidewalk back to the scene expecting to peel what was left of the kitten off the pavement... i was sure of that... When i get back to where i thought i had seen the kitten on the north side of the block... i look all over the pavement... nothing! I look everywhere...still no kitten. I search and search out onto the 4 lanes of raging traffic and still can't see a kitten or remnants anywhere. I search the other side with hopes he had somehow and miraculously maybe made it across - nothing. I look behind me... i look on either side of the sidewalk... nada... still nothing. All there is... is the continuous steady traffic noisily racing to and fro in front of me... "Wow?", i think to myself... that's one amazing kitten... i wonder how the heck he got out of that one? Where the heck did he go...........? I couldn't help but feel like an idiot - did i REALLY see what i thought i saw? I thought i saw a puddy-cat... Standing facing the traffic i'm absolutely totally perplexed... literally scratching my head asking myself again... did i really see what i thought i saw? Am i in the right place looking now?... to double-check i walked up and down along the sidewalk checking again and again - back and forth many times over and... still nothing. I was sure it was here - in this place... i'm positive! Just when i think about giving up and start walking the block back to my car... inside the rhythmic-swishing of the traffic, i hear faint mewing-cries a short distance away... at first i can't tell where the mewing is coming from - i look around and around searching... and then i realize that the crying is coming from one of the houses behind me... "Where are you?" i actually cry out....... i turn around to face the relentless mewing-sounds but i still can't see where... my ears and eyes follow the desperate cries of help and then... i finally see UP on a house balcony in front of me, pacing back and forth hysterically against and in-and-around the balcony's rod-iron bars is a tabby kitten - and he seemed to be mewing at 'me"..........wanting my attention.... "Huh?.. i say to myself.....is this the same kitten??? No frickin' way... how can it be???"... i spin a 360-degree turn completely to see again for the kitten i thought i saw around on the ground or on the road... anywhere... there has to be another kitten... come on............... Whaaat?... How the **** did he get up there?... i again ask myself if this is the same kitten i saw earlier stepping off the curb...? ......it sure looks like..... it could be?????... As i'm standing on the sidewalk in absolute disbelief and shock watching the balcony kitten mewing incessantly at me running back and forth...... the kitten then throws itself off the 20-or-so-foot balcony and lands hard onto the lawn below and dashes towards me in short leaps through the long lawn grass, crying the whole way until... He reaches me... and i pick him up gently cupping him in my hands holding him up to my eye-level... We look at each other - i'm completely awed dumbfounded - he's sooooooo little.... ... i can feel his little heart just-a-pounding and he won't stop stop mewing... and to boot... he had pooped himself...... i promptly wipe him and my hands off together on the grass - nervously hanging on to him to keep him safe...and trying to reassure him he was okay now that he was in my nervous hands...... OK... so now what?......... I stand there for quite some time holding him continuing to comfort him and settle him down... i really didn't know what to do....... I eventually decide to knock on a few doors in the block to see if he belongs to anyone... after a number of feeble attempts i give up as anyone i talked to didn't want to have anything to do with him. And so... i head back to my car with kitty in hand... Once in the car, i again wipe him and me off with a rag and decide to take him to an SPCA i know about not far away on Clark Drive... i realize i can't keep him as i already have 2 pets of my own... i had to do something... 'cause i couldn't just leave him there.... When i arrive at the SPCA... i hand him over to the folks there, tell the story of how i found him and they assure me that he'll be probably adopted within the next few hours because he's so little and so cute... i reluctantly pass him over saying a quiet goodbye, give him a last pet and wish him the best - thanking him silently in some way...... and the SPCA folk thanked me for bringing him in telling me how lucky that kitten was to have found me... Found me? ... i believe he definitely found me! ...or, some divine intervention happened for both of us - for each of us - in one given moment of time... or........ no-time??? Still shaking my head and a tad teary to let him go, i head for the bathroom to clean up and leave to finally go home... all that day i was left with a mixed feeling of bizaare wonderment and somewhat confused....... Well... what do you think all that was?... just coincidence?... or what?... ...i don't know................... To tell you the truth i'm really still not sure... but i just can't help but think that somehow... that i witnessed and was a part of some kind of "divine grab" of some sort...... and still wonder to this day how i was a part of all that... Was it my immense feeling-state of yelling out "NO!" in the just-right-moment" - was my strong-feeling a prayer of some sort?........or what........? And, oh yeah.... little guy - wherever you ended up or wherever you are or from... thank you for the gift of showing me a little more of the blessed divine! I welcome your thoughts and/or comments my friends...... and would love to hear if you have ever experienced anything similar to this.......... Bright blessings with always so much light and love, weaver (((o)))
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