June is Adopt-a-Cat month. In my experience, though, you don’t adopt cats. They adopt you. This year we seem to have an invisible cat. We haven't seen it, but it has left mice (or parts of them) on our doorstep. And it’s been using our yard as a litter box. I saw a T-shirt the other day that quoted the book of Genesis, sort of: “Thou shalt have dominion over all the beasts...except, of course, cats.” Cats don’t have owners, they have staff. When they rub affectionately against your legs, they’re not caressing you. They caress themselves against you. I’ve read that when the writer Edward Lear moved, he had his new house built to match the old one in every detail, so his cat Foss wouldn’t be confused. He understood that all homes are really owned by the cats that live there. They generously allow us to share their homes with them. This clever block design was created by Kim Noblin at http://quilting.bellaonline.com
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