I had to send you through that door alone... They wouldn't let me go with you.

Mind you, I new you could handle yourself. I knew on the strength of your huge white feet of spirit, your boldness, curiosity, and feline ferocity, you would cake-walk the whole thing...right into eternity. I hope you did not look back at me.
Your mom was a wreck... sending my kid off to school for that big first day, knowing when you returned you'd be changed forever... no longer my precious, jealously watched little cub, but forever part of the larger (unseen) world, and belonging to yourself alone, answerable only to God.
My love, unchanged, waits here for you, until I may join you. Stop for a while, now and then, between cosmic errands, if just to see if I've changed your old room.
forever your,

Mom/sister/Mom again