Ailurophile ~ a cat lover

I posted this cat tee-shirt on Facebook in November 2017, saying:

Is this your cat?  Can you imagine it happening?  What is it about cats, anyway?  It seems perfectly possible to me.

My friend Hamilton commented today (45 weeks later):

I am an "ailurophile," no an ailurophile.

Ailurophile combines the Greek word ailouros, which means "cat," and the suffix -phile, meaning "lover."  So an ailurophile is a cat lover.  That's a new word for me.  If you click on the link, you can also hear it spoken.

Hamilton used the same word twice, so she may have meant "ailurophobe" for one or the other.  (No, I didn't know this word, either, until Merriam-Webster informed me.)  This one means "fearing or averse to" cats.  I'm waiting to see how Hamilton responds on Facebook, but she rarely goes there and may never see my response.  Maybe I'll have to call her.

Four hours later, I called Hamilton.  I was right.  She's an ailurophobe.

Monday Mindfulness ~ more happiness

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It's the third week of this year, so it's time to pull up another seven days from the Happiness Calendar.

Jan. 15 ~ Make something happen for a good cause.
Jan. 16 ~ Take a different route today and see what you notice.
Jan. 17 ~ Put a worry into perspective and try to let it go.
Jan. 18 ~ Get outside and notice five things that are beautiful.
Jan. 19 ~ Eat healthy food which really nourishes you today.
Jan. 20 ~ Have a friendly chat with a stranger.
Jan. 21 ~ Switch off all your tech two hours before bedtime.

Hamilton

Yesterday's happiness suggestion was "Get back in touch with an old friend you miss."  I called my friend Hamilton in Chattanooga, and we talked for almost two hours.  I emailed her links to this blog, to the website for the Crown Center where I live, and to my Facebook page, so now she and I are FB friends.  I took the photo above last spring out by our gazebo, but it's snowing out there tonight as I set this up to post in a couple of hours.