Life 1 - We found him abandoned in our driveway, barely old enough to be separated from his mother.
He turned out to be such light and beautiful soul. The best way that I can convey this is that the kitten and now the cat doesn't have a single malicious bone in his body. He is all forgiveness. Ever gentle, with a soft padding through life, ever light. Almost barely here. He is filled with seeming boundless energy and looks out onto the world with these fearless, guileless eyes.
Life 2 - The squirrels in our back yard fascinated him, and it quickly became apparent that he couldn't tell the difference between his ability and theirs. Now these days, it is very comical to watch him stalk them. Unlike the other cats, he can get quite close ... this is not due to some special stalking ability ... no, you can see the squirrels, they make a half-hearted attempt to run away, look back, and you can see it on their face ... "...oh, no need to worry, it's just Lo-lo!". For his part, he runs up to them and then you can see the cat-thought .. "ok, what do I do now?".
Well in any event while he was still young he treed himself chasing them and I had to get out the ladder to get him down. These days he just keeps climbing up onto a neighbor's roof that he somehow knows how to get down from on his own.
Life 3 - He got hit by a car. That really sucked. He limped around for awhile but now he's fine. Hard to believe.
Life 4 - Before he developed his acrobatic talents he followed the branches up onto our roof and meowed his head off until I went up through the hatch to bring him back in.
Life 5 - Somehow he got into an abandoned apartment at the back of the house next door. The owner hasn't lived there for awhile and at the time he had an auction notice up, so I risked the trespass and removed the screen trapping the cat.
Life 6 - Three nights ago he didn't come home. Sue broke down and cried twice about it. We went all around calling his name, looking for him. Finally, after coming home, it was like about 11 at night and things were quieter than normal, we called out his name as we walked back to the house, not really expecting anything. Go figure ... we hear this really really faint cry. It took some doing but we traced it to a garage across a street and kitty-corner to us. He must have gone inside to get out of the rain and then gotten closed in. Luckily, the door wasn't locked
Here's the little critter, now imprisoned until further notice:

When I think about all of the dumb risks I've taken in my life I truly am astounded by how many times God has pulled my ass out of the fire. Three years ago, before reading TPON, not only would I have never recognized this, but I never would have realized what of a reflection of myself I've found in Lolo.
"The Lord works in mysterious ways".
"Be careful what you wish for".
Choosing to live by some sort of code or secret or plan or whatever and then expecting all good things to come your way is a gross mis-interpretation of the idea of karma, or the Law of Attraction ... but there is no way to outrun your direct experience, and sometimes, you can see glimpses of the mirror in the content of the reflection.