{"id":6332,"date":"2020-01-21T13:15:27","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T20:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manyvoices.soundstrue.com\/?p=5277"},"modified":"2020-03-30T15:53:54","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T15:53:54","slug":"memories-of-cats-i-loved-brother-david-steindl-rast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources2.soundstrue.com\/blog\/memories-of-cats-i-loved-brother-david-steindl-rast\/","title":{"rendered":"Memories of Cats I Loved:  Brother David Steindl-Rast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5278 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/manyvoices.soundstrue.com\/manyvoices\/wp-content\/uploads\/BLOG-Memories.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1103\" height=\"550\" \/><\/p>\n<h1><strong>Mietzi, 1980s, New York City<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>For millennia, humans have speculated why some of us are born into riches, others into rags. If<br \/>\nwe can\u2019t answer this question for humans, how shall we answer it for cats? Bad karma, you<br \/>\nsay? If so, Mietzi must have misbehaved quite badly in a previous incarnation to be born in a<br \/>\nflooded basement this time around. No one knows. What we do know, however, is that the most<br \/>\ndisadvantaged pull most strongly on our heartstrings, and so someone rescued Mietzi and her<br \/>\nsiblings from their sunless island of soggy rags. No one ever mentioned the mother cat, and I<br \/>\ndon\u2019t know what happened to the other kittens of that litter. All I know is that little Lisa<br \/>\npersuaded her reluctant grandmother, and so Mietzi became my mother\u2019s cat.<\/p>\n<p>After that deluged basement, even a tenth-floor New York apartment that was never designed<br \/>\nfor pets must have appeared like paradise to the poor kitten. Or so we were hoping. Lisa<br \/>\ndelivered Mietzi in a soft-cushioned basket, and the cat was still sitting in that basket when, after<br \/>\nan elaborate farewell from the cat, Lisa kissed her grandmother goodbye at the door. The door<br \/>\nclosed, Mother turned around, and the basket was empty.<\/p>\n<p>That the cat was gone was bad enough, but her pitiful meow was not gone. It kept haunting the<br \/>\napartment for the next hour, while Mother, eventually with the help of her neighbors on both<br \/>\nsides, searched every corner so methodically that Scotland Yard would have been proud of that<br \/>\njob. The voice, unaccountably, always seemed to come from nowhere; yet it persisted.<br \/>\nWhen the ladies finally dismantled the Sony radio and hi-fi record player my mother won at a<br \/>\nraffle, Mietzi emerged from the only place where she could have gotten as covered with dust as<\/p>\n<p>she did: one of the loudspeaker boxes. A bad start, especially since Mother felt that the kitten<br \/>\nneeded a bath. (There must have been lots of water signs in Mietzi\u2019s natal chart.)<br \/>\nNo cat could have been more loved, more talked about in telephone conversations with children<br \/>\nand grandchildren, more lovingly reported on at length in every letter.<\/p>\n<p>Mietzi wasn\u2019t young anymore when Mother was diagnosed with leukemia. Mother was still at<br \/>\nhome, and I was with her during the decisive days when the doctor was testing whether or not<br \/>\nmedication could help her. I was sitting by Mother\u2019s bed then, when Mietzi seemed to get ready<br \/>\nfor an acrobatic stunt. Balancing on the back of the rocking chair, she was clearly considering<br \/>\njumping from there onto a high chest of drawers.<br \/>\nNever before had she tried this. Ears laid back, Mietzi was measuring the distance. \u201cIs she<br \/>\ngoing to make it?\u201d I asked\u2014and the moment the words were out, I realized that this was the<br \/>\nquestion my brothers and I were anxiously asking about Mother at that time. \u201cLet\u2019s see,\u201d Mother<br \/>\nreplied. Nothing else was said\u2014neither then nor later\u2014but both of us knew what was at stake.<br \/>\nThere was no tinge of superstition about this. Everything hangs together with everything; we<br \/>\nknow that. In principle then, we may look at one event and find in it a clue for quite a different<br \/>\none, unconnected though they may appear to be. Some try this with tea leaves or planets;<br \/>\nothers think that, in practice, this is too complex an art. There are moments, however, when an<br \/>\nomen lights up with such clarity that it would be difficult to deny its foreboding. Not wanting this<br \/>\nto be true, Mother and I knew, nevertheless, what was going on here.<br \/>\nMietzi steadied herself on the back of the rocking chair, crouched, jumped, and missed. Have<br \/>\nyou ever noticed the embarrassment of a cat when something like this happens? We tried to<br \/>\nconsole Mietzi, Mother and I, but we couldn\u2019t quite console ourselves that evening.<br \/>\nThe verdict was in. What was not decided was how we would handle it, and that is what really<br \/>\nmatters.<\/p>\n<p>Mother handled it with grace. Two days later, she was in the hospital again, never to return<br \/>\nhome to Mietzi. Her mind was clear to the last, as she took care of unfinished business calmly<br \/>\nand efficiently. She knew in which folder important papers were kept, in which dresser; she<br \/>\nhanded my brother the keys with a smile. Only once did she break down and cry: when Mietzi\u2019s<br \/>\nfuture was to be decided. But a solution was found: since Mother\u2019s apartment was at the same<br \/>\ntime the office for her charitable work, which my brother would continue, Mietzi could stay where<br \/>\nshe was. The \u201csuper\u201d of the building, who was fond of Mietzi anyway, would look after her when<br \/>\nmy brother wasn\u2019t there.<\/p>\n<p>Mother was at peace.<br \/>\nI sat next to her bed holding her hand, and she said, \u201cThis is how I\u2019d like to die. You ought to sit<br \/>\nthere holding my hand and I\u2019d just fall asleep.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell,\u201d I said, \u201cI\u2019d like that, too, but we can\u2019t plan it with such precision.\u201d Not many hours later, I<br \/>\nwas sitting in that very spot holding Mother\u2019s hand when she went to sleep for good. So<br \/>\npeacefully did she breathe her last that there was no telling exactly when she passed from time<br \/>\ninto the great Now.<\/p>\n<p>Mietzi outlived her by a year or two, mercifully among her accustomed surroundings: the potted<br \/>\nplants on which she nibbled once in a while, the old rugs of which she knew every square inch<br \/>\nby their smell, and my mother\u2019s empty armchair on which she curled up when she got lonely.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is an excerpt from a story written by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.soundstrue.com\/store\/david-steindl-rast.html\">Brother David Steindl-Rast<\/a> and featured in The Karma<\/em><br \/>\n<em>of Cats: Spiritual Wisdom from Our Feline Friends, a compilation of original stories by Kelly<\/em><br \/>\n<em>McGonigal, Alice Walker, Andrew Harvey, and many more!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5282\" src=\"https:\/\/manyvoices.soundstrue.com\/manyvoices\/wp-content\/uploads\/AUTHOR-PHOTO-David-SteindlRast.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"258\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Brother David Steindl-Rast<\/strong> was born in Vienna, Austria, and holds a PhD from the<br \/>\nPsychological Institute at the University of Vienna. After 12 years of training in the 1,500-year-<br \/>\nold Benedictine monastic tradition, Brother David received permission to practice Zen with<br \/>\nBuddhist masters. An international lecturer and author, Brother David is a leader in the monastic<br \/>\nrenewal movement as well as the dialogue between Eastern and Western religions. His most<br \/>\nrecent book is i am through you so i. He is the founder of A Network for Grateful Living. Learn<br \/>\nmore at gratefulness.org.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Read The Karma of Cats today!<\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.soundstrue.com\/store\/the-karma-of-cats.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sounds True<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> | <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Karma-Cats-Spiritual-Wisdom-Friends\/dp\/1683642538\/ref=olp_product_details?_encoding=UTF8&amp;me=&amp;qid=1577470379&amp;sr=8-1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> | <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/the-karma-of-cats-diana-ventimiglia\/1134460388?ean=9781683642534#\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Barnes&amp;Noble<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> | <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9781683642534\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">IndieBound<\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5283\" src=\"https:\/\/manyvoices.soundstrue.com\/manyvoices\/wp-content\/uploads\/3D-Book-Cover-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5300\" src=\"https:\/\/manyvoices.soundstrue.com\/manyvoices\/wp-content\/uploads\/memories-of-cast-pinterest.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Mietzi, 1980s, New York City For millennia, humans have speculated why some of us are born into riches, others into rags. If we can\u2019t answer this question for humans, how shall we answer it for cats? Bad karma, you say? If so, Mietzi must have misbehaved quite badly in a previous incarnation to 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