Do You Own a Cat or Does a Cat Own You?

 

Switching off lights as she went, Shelby climbed the stairs to the second floor.

The cat leapt nimbly from his perch on the windowsill, stretched and padded toward her.

When Shelby came in, dinner wasn't far behind. The bird fluffed her wings and began to

gnaw on her cuttle-bone.

"How's it going?" She gave Moshe an absent scratch behind the ears where he liked it

best. With a sound of approval, he looked up at her with his one eye, tilting his head so

that the patch he wore looked raffish and right. "Yeah, I'll feed you."

All the Possibilities

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One could argue whether a cat ever has an owner—having had a few, I rather felt owned.

 

 Treehugger

Cats are thought to have a more profound mind than is thought.” They know where you are, they know what you are doing, and they know they will get what they want.”

Lighthouses in all their windswept beauty and grandeur

The lighthouse was a wide sphere of white, solitary and strong

 against the elements. Perhaps it was worn and a bit weather-beaten

 in places, but it held a simple power that remained timeless and real. 

It seemed a good place to shelter from any storm.

All the Possibilities

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And the way the lighthouse stood there, solid,

indomitable. The whitewash was faded here and 

there, the concrete blocks pockmarked

with time and salt spray. That only added to

 the humanity of it. Man’s strike for safety

against the mercurial sea.

There would have been times the sea

 would have won, Gennie mused. 

Because man was fallible. 

There would have been times the 

lighthouse would have won. 

Because man was tenacious. 

Pitted together they spoke of harmony, 

perseverance, sweat, and strength.

One Man's Art

Signs Your Cat Is Secretly Mad at You

"I wonder just what he'd do if he were really crossed. He doesn't appear to have a temper. 
Cats usually don't until they're pushed too far just that one time, and then they're deadly." 

All the Possibilities

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By Paulo rsmenezes - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10599332

15 Signs Your Cat Is Secretly Mad at You

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Nijinsky growled.

"Since I'm the first up," she said, casting the cat a rueful glance, "I'll have the shower first." 
She arched her brows at Nick. "You can make the coffee." As she darted into the bath, 
she called over her shoulder, 
"Don't forget to feed the cat."

Dance of Dreams

Beautiful: Ceramics Masters doing their work

The wheel hummed. The clay spun, succumbing to the pressure of her hands, 
yielding to the unrelenting demands of her imagination. 
She formed a thick-walled ring, pressing her thumb in the center of the ball, 
then slowly, very slowly, pulled it upward between her thumb and fingers to form
 a cylinder. She could flatten it into a plate now, open it into a bowl, 
perhaps close it into a sphere, according to her own pleasure. 

She was both in control and driven. 
Her hands dominated the clay as surely as 
her creativity dominated her. 

All the Possibilities

Ian @ MacGregors

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The afternoon sun poured into Megan‟s studio. 
She was oblivious to it, and to the bird song outside the windows. 
Her mind was focused on the clay her hands worked with,
 or, more precisely, 
on what she saw in the partially formed mound.   

Less of a Stranger 

Finger Food for New Year's Eve

With a sigh of pure sensual greed, Shelby popped a chilled shrimp into her mouth. 
"I don't know what this is," she murmured, giving a tiny hors d'oeuvre a close study. "Have a taste and tell me." 
Intrigued, Alan bit into the finger food she held to his mouth. 
"Pate wrapped in pastry with a touch of chestnut." 
"Hmm. Okay." Shelby devoured the rest of it. 


All the Possibilities

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Holiday Appetizer Buffet Recipes

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“With a little class. I made fancy hors d‟oeuvres.” 

“Pigs in a blanket?”

 When she laughed, tossing back her head the way she did, he poked her. 

“I like pigs in a blanket.” 

“You‟re not getting them tonight.” 

Happy Ever After

Women like men's hands

With a slight frown she skimmed her gaze over the tabletop until it rested on his hands.
Good God, she thought with a jolt, they were beautiful. The wrists were narrow, giving a
sense not of weakness but of graceful strength and capability. The backs of his hands were
deeply tanned and unmarred, long and lean, as were his fingers. The nails were short and
straight. Masculine was her first thought, then delicate came quickly on the tail of it.
Gennie could picture the hands holding a flute just as easily as she could see them
wielding a saber.
For a moment she forgot the rest of him in her fascination with his hands, and her reaction
to them. She felt the stir but didn’t suppress it. She was certain any woman who saw those
romantic, exquisite hands would automatically wonder just what they would feel like on
her skin. Impatient hands, clever. They were the kind that could either rip the clothes off a
woman or gently undress her before she had any idea what was happening.
When a thrill Gennie recognized as anticipation sprinted up her spine, she caught herself.
What was she thinking of!


One Man's Art

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By Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 

http://www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/bmag/whats-on/print-room-visit-pre-raphaelite-drawings – 

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He must do something physical with his

hands, she thought fleetingly. His weren't the palms of a paper-pusher. The edge in her

voice was calculated to combat the attraction and the vulnerability that went with it.

All the Possibilities

(The MacGregor's)