My blog is so new that not very many kitties visit or leave comments yet. Sometimes I think about stopping but then Mom reminds me that I read a lot of other kitties’ blogs but don’t have time to comment on every one of them.

I’ll continue to read as many of your blogs as I can every day even though I’ll probably still not comment as often as I should. And none of us has to read anything we don’t want to!

Having had things like this happen on e-mail lists I was on, I guess I just eventually developed a viewpoint that suggests ‘Never ascribe to maliciousnes what can be ascribed to ignorance (or silliness, or a joke gone wrong, or misunderstanding due to the lack of body language accompanying the message, or, well, a squillion (I LOVE that word!) different reasons that don’t involve meanness).

Marina said in her apology that she could hear her mother saying “The road to Hell is paved with good intentions”. That may be true, but the person whose good intentions (or even innocuous ones) misled them is not a bad person because of it. Someone who deliberately does wrong is evil, someone who does something wrong without bad intentions is just someone who made a mistake. And who among us hasn’t?

If you think you made a mistake, and want to leave in shame or a sense of not deserving to be here, please don’t. If someone else is truly so angry or hurt they don’t want to associate with you, they can choose to just not associate with you (and that’s ok too), but please don’t feel as though you have to go. You don’t.

And we’d miss you.

Jack’s OTW (who has a knack for hurting people’s feelings even when she thinks her words through for a long time and tries really hard not to)

We think a diplomatic solution would be to create a special meme for today, “Forgive & Forget Friday” and for all blogging kitties & beans to post 10 ways the Cat Blogosphere has changed their lives for the better! Let’s all fill the CB with positive thoughts so that no blogging kitty or bean will ever think of leaving such a nice place!