Listen to Your Cat!

When I met my significant other, Scott (I can't bring myself to say "boyfriend" since we are both almost middle aged),  I was brought into the fascinating feline world.  Maverick is beautiful smokey gray, 10 year old,  mild mannered male Tabby.

Don't get me wrong, he has his moments.  Like when we introduced him to our Maltese/Terrier mixed dog Sparky.  He is not acclimating well and refuses to play nice.  Or when he does not wish to be held.  Good luck with trying to keep him in your arms!  But for better or worst, we are a family and somehow we will all get along, eventually.

Maverick is quite a character.  Once in a while he remembers that he loves something else other than his catnip and climbs into bed with us.  Normally he is quite a loner, preferring to spend most of his day sitting by a window watching the day go by, this was part of the reason we decided to get a second pet.  One who would interact more with me during the day.

Oddly enough on several occasions when Scott and I have gone to sleep, not entirely happy with one another, Maverick jumps on the bed in the middle of the night and wakes us up by bumping our heads with his, and caressing our faces.  He especially likes it when his daddy has a little stubble on his face.  I have come to the conclusion that he wakes us up, so that we can make up.  It's totally within my nature to come up with such a conclusion, I like to find any occasion to get my freak on.  "Listen to your cat," I have told Scott, "he has a lot of common sense."

Scott just laughs and marvels at the many creative ways I come up with to try and entice him that it's time to make love.  He is a lot more conservative than I, hell, that's a flat out lie, I'm not conservative at all.  I have no problem with discussing, practicing, enjoying, exploring sex in all its forms.  Just so happens that my newest ploy is to implicate his beloved Maverick, to my advantage, of course.

I believe all couples have their own secret language when it comes to letting each other know when they wish to be intimate.  Some are more outspoken than others.  Some more discrete.  Me?  I added a new phrase to an already long list of private communication between me and my partner.  "Listen to your cat!" now has a whole new delicious meaning.

Advisory Warning: May Cause Unpleasantness to Conservatives

What exactly is being a middle aged conservative?  Can someone please explain this concept to me?  What is it's importance in the grand scheme of life?  And why on earth would this vast population of the human race refuse to evolve and leave the cave already.  Because the way I see it middle aged conservatism is fast approaching extinction and the saddest part is, their refusal to see that our social environment has changed in such fundamental ways, that simply reminding themselves that they are conservatives doesn't quite bring about the same comfort as it did in the past.  Does this remind anyone else of the ostrich with it's head in the sand?

Part of the problem is that people have infused so much religion into our daily lives that its hard to figure out what ideas and beliefs are actually ours and which were pounded into our subconscious by well intentioned parents and other adults during our formative years. Another part might be just doing business as usual.  For a long time there was no other acceptable way of living your life but collectively conservative. Anyone acting or speaking out of the norm were labeled as rebels, hippies, communist, anarchist; whichever label that threaten their lively hood sufficiently enough to get them back in line.

This anal conservatism would permeate all aspects of life.  From deciding what professional field your female child should pursue to deciding if she should bother to dream of pursuing any professional field at all. It even intrudes in the bedroom.  It would be impossible to estimate how many relationships have been affected by the puritan conservative notions of what constitutes acceptable sexual behavior between two consenting adults.   If anyone believes that I am spewing nonsense, just ask any military personnel what would happen to them if their superiors found out that they are engaging in any type of sex with their legally married spouses other than in the missionary position.  For those that are not familiar with the term, missionary position refers to the man being on top of the female.   That is all that is allowed.  Anything else, could land a soldier in jail.

I am of a more liberal mind.  I believe in the freedom that comes from the expression of thought.  In the live and let live, philosophy. In the pursuit of happiness but not at the detriment of others.  In the let's enjoy love while we are lucky enough to have it.   In the, oh my gosh, let's see what surprises are in store for us tomorrow.  In the, "All that I'm saying is give Peace a Chance."

And yet, as a cruel test of fate, but well within the roller coaster that is my life, I must find a way to reconcile the two colliding worlds that is that of Liberal and Conservative, because as luck would have it, I am in love with a Midwestern Conservative.