BLESS HER FLEA PICKIN' HEART

It’s funny to me how the universe can bring a concept…

Full circle.

Saturday, I was in my living room…

Reading the February issue of Writer’s Digest…

When my cat took an all too familiar stance…

Staring at something on the floor, statue still…

But ready to pounce.

Lord!

A spider?

OMG! YES!

I jumped up and ran into the kitchen for a paper towel…

Ran back in and–

Ha HA! Got you, you little sucker!

Hmm?

I haven’t seen one since the fall.

I then remembered what an exterminator once told me,

“The only reason you have spiders in your house,

is because you have a food source.”

Hmm? Food source?

OMG! The fleas!  Of course. All the fleas in my carpeting.

After vacuuming for the umpteenth time…

I took my Writer’s Digest up into my office to read it.

And you’re not going to believe the coincidence I found…

There’s an article called “Amusing Muses”…

Though the coincidence is not because my blog name is Em-Musing…

But rather because of an info tidbit in that article…

That tells of famous authors and their writing habits.

“T.S. Elliot preferred writing when he had a head cold”…

“Voltaire used his lover’s back as a writing desk”…

And…

“Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette first picked fleas from her cat, then wrote.”

Up until last week, I hadn’t ever experienced fleas…

And now I’m reading about a famous author who used fleas to inspire her.

See what I mean?

If my cat hadn’t had fleas…

The fact that Sidonie-Gabrielle Collete picked fleas…

Wouldn't have resonated with me…

And I wouldn’t have Googled her and found out that she wrote Gigi…

And around 50 more novels…

And found her amazing quotes on writing and cats.

And so…

To complete the circle even more...

In tomorrow’s post…

I’ll share some of Sidonie-Gabrielle Collete's quotes with you.

I love how the universe works.

Don’t you?

Always, Em-Musing