🐾 OFFICIAL MEMO FROM RALEIGH

Title: Darling, You’re Playing It Too Safe
Classification: Career Intervention — Executive Review Required

To: The Human at a Professional Crossroads
From: Raleigh, CEO of the Couch & Chief Career Strategist

Darling, your career choices are… interesting. And not in the “write-a-book-about-it” way — more in the “safe as a mouse at a cat convention” way. I’ve been alive for twelve years, which in feline terms makes me ancient, wise, and entirely unafraid to tell you what you don’t want to hear.

Here’s the truth: playing it safe may keep your paws clean, but it also keeps you from catching the big fish (or at least the really juicy tuna cans). Take the risk. Make the leap. Send that bold email. Apply for the job that scares you. What’s the worst that could happen? You fail? At least then you’d have time to reorganize your closet — which, frankly, is the bigger problem.

Consider this your executive order to shake things up. My personalized cat letters aren’t just sass for show — they’re tactical motivation wrapped in fur and delivered with precision. Now go prove to me you’re worth the window seat in my office.

Respectfully,
Raleigh
Chief Arbiter of Bold Moves & Better Outfitsesides, I need better stories to judge.

🐾 LETTER FROM MADDELYNN

Title: I Still See You
Classification: Personal — From Beyond the Nap

Dear Sophie,

I’ve been watching you. Not in the way I used to, from the corner of the couch with my tail wrapped neatly around me, but from a place where the light never fades and naps are endless. And I see what you’ve been carrying.

Your smile is still there — but sometimes it’s thinner now, like it has to fight its way past the weight in your chest. You move through the day with that quiet strength you’ve always had, but I notice the moments when you shrink a little, when the air around you feels heavier. I want you to know… I notice.

You’ve always been my human. My safe place. The one who fed me, loved me, and let me be exactly who I was. You gave me dignity, comfort, and a home where I was never made small. That’s what you deserve too.

I wish I could curl up on your lap right now, press my head into your hand, and purr until the ache loosens. But since I can’t, I’ll leave you with this: you are still the person who gave a stubborn, particular cat like me the perfect life. You still deserve gentleness. You still deserve a place where your heart feels safe.

When you doubt that, remember this — I never once questioned if I was loved when I was with you. And I never will.

I’m still here, watching. Still yours.

With love that never leaves,
Maddelynn
Keeper of Quiet Truths & Warmest Places