I Love It

Picture Prompt Day 12 - Something you love

     Yes, I am swapping the two days, don't worry.  I was getting permission from an artist to use their artwork for tomorrows post.

     I made this piece of artwork many years ago in Paint and would like to remake it with manipulated images someday, but it encapsulates pretty well my primary loves: cats, space, and Star Trek.  I love them so much that I'm not sure what to say about them.  Isn't funny that when you feel more strongly about something words fall away because mere language cannot convey the breadth and depth of the subject?

     I'm not sure when cats surpassed horses as my favorite animals, but looking back it was probably around the time I transitioned from my wild and headstrong childhood into my quietly independent adolescence and adulthood.  Also looking back, they've always been an unacknowledged second favorite, starting with my love of Duchess and Marie in Aristocats and blossoming with the Warriors series by Erin Hunter.

     Star Trek is a very important part of my childhood and I consider it such a key part of my make up that I forget to include the movies in my favorites lists, the same as the Disney movies.  Sunday in our house was Hawaiian pizza night, with a big bottle of root beer, and either a Star Trek movie or AFV.  Star Trek is a world where most of the known universes inhabitants have learned to get along and work together to explore the vast and beautiful expanses that lie on our horizons.  They don't fight until they have been attacked first (though naturally they take precautions) and try to use their words to solve the conflict.  It is also much more science oriented than the floofy Force dominated Star Wars universe, which appeals to my logic oriented mind.

     In high school one year, in a social studies class, we were asked to present our favorite artist from a certain era and I chose to feature the receiving station in Australia that collected many of the images of space from the various satellites traversing space.  (It was the Arts Academy, we are free thinkers and I figured I could get away with it.)  The galaxies, gas clouds, stars, and constellations are far more beautiful and thought provoking than any painting by human or beast.