Day 9: Curling up in another corner

"I can't understand what is so threatening about not believing in something.  There is a world of things not to believe in and a world of people not believing in them.  So why does my not believing in this one little thing make it such a big deal.  Maybe because in some people's worlds, that one "little"thing... isn't so little.  It is everything.  Maybe my not believing in "it" and being okay means that "it" may not be that big of a deal as a whole.  I can understand then that unbelief may come across as threatening.  I hope humanity evolves past this and sooner than later." (RN... 2024, Day 9)  

I have a cat bed on my puzzle table.  For the most part my cat Twinkel sleeps there.  He's the boy of the family.  I share that picture on Day 3 this year.  It keeps him off my puzzle.  He is well behaved for the most part because he has a place where he is included.  

Yesterday our other cat Sofie, came and curled up on the puzzle table bed.  She has a few other options in my office, but she chose that one.  After twelve years of sharing our house with these two feline furbabies, we have come to know a few things about them.  They like their own places, but those places are also free to be encroached on by the other.  So sometimes there might be a quizzical look from the one cat when the other cat is curled up in a spot more commonly used by their housemate.  There can be one of two responses.  One cat can chase the other cat out... which is more of a Twinkel response than a Sofie response.  The other option is that the displaced cat finds another place to curl up.  That happens more often.  

I found the opening quote in one of my Day 9 readings this morning. I think I am quite lucky to have two cats that for the most part can find another place to curl up.  That isn't how most humans behave when someone encroaches on their well established territory.  We still don't know how to share well on this planet.  We don't know how to dwell together in our differences.  We don't know how curl up in another corner when our bed has another cat in it.  Oh how I wish we could see more of that in our world.