Vintage September Black Cat Art & How Aging Sucks
Vintage September Black Cat Art
is a monthly feature of curated art from the past century. You’ll have to scroll down for the sucky part about aging.
This month is a glorious trio of magazine covers from 1896 to 1899. They sum up our philosophy at Cat Wisdom 101. We believe good art is timeless and stands the test of time. Cat love is timeless and the mania for cats long preceded the Internet. Cats are eternally cute, funny, entertaining and anthropomorphizing is nothing new. Black cats are adorable and adoptable.
This kind of fun imagery goes a long way to dispel to the negative evil stereotype. Do you agree?
If you haven’t stopped by our Black Cats Tell All community page of Facebook, please do and like us. We’ve been posting lots of goodies there and on Instagram which is why our blog posts are scarce. That and working like mad on our book with a hornet’s nest of issues.
Mercury in Retrograde is still on for another week. Sigh. Having communication break downs, tech meltdowns? Click on the link and find out why. This one is a doozy. Double, triple check everything and assume nothing. If a hundred things could go wrong in a day, 99 would. Having a la de da grand time? Don’t believe in the stars? Count your blessings.
In the middle of the madness, there was riotous fun at a cat cafe, cat rescue connections galore, a shelter opening and educational gold at a cat blogger conference in New York. Being treated to car service from the ‘burbs and a night at the hippest hotel was bonus.
But, being surrounded by a dense demographic of millennials hit me hard. This chick is more mother hen or in catspeak, a senior kitty. I know I look young for my age, but my bones and recovery time scream, antique, circa 1896!
How did that happen? More importantly, none of us have a moment to lose worrying, procrastinating or catnapping your dreams away, unless you’re 22.
More later, but after Meow Like A Pirate Day tomorrow, this ship will need to stay close to shore for the next month until our Black Cats Tell All book sails into harbor. Ahoy, dear cat lovers and see you soon!
21 Comments
Ellen Pilch
I know what you mean about feeling old. 🙂 I love the black kitty art.
skeeter and Izzy
Cute and Fun always go a long way toward changing things! Thanks for sharing the old graphics.
You’re not old!
Luvs
skeeter and Izzy and the Feral Gang + Twig & Peanut & Romeo & the angels >^..^^..^<~
Alex
Love the artwork!
meowmeowmans
Love those black cat covers! And aging does kind of suck … more and more, and faster and faster as we get older. 😉
Layla Morgan Wilde
Thanks and funny how time does speed up as we get older!
Marjorie and the Dash Kitten Crew
Oh dad whines on about feeling old sometimes. I said it’s all how you feel. We don’t do old yet MOL!!
Layla Morgan Wilde
Ha, we refuse do to old either 🙂
Summer
I love those magazine covers! My human rejects aging, utterly and absolutely… and it seems to work for her.
Layla Morgan Wilde
Agreed 100% 🙂
The Island Cats
We love this Black Cat art.
Beverly
Love those old magazine covers.
Hang in there with the editing work. Take a deep breath and re-center once in a while–it will come to an end, won’t it?
Best wishes.
Layla Morgan Wilde
It will or I will come to an end 😉 Thanks, I am breathing and Zen most of the time.
The Swiss Cats
We love that vintage cat art ! Aging… Claire is just discovering a new world, MOL ! Purrs
Layla Morgan Wilde
Ha, tell your mom to ignore that world 😉
Kathryn
Wow, love all the vintage black cat. And Mwo agrees.
Sue Brandes
Love the cat art. Enjoy your week.
Layla Morgan Wilde
Thanks, Sue. Hope your week is good!
Tamago
Those are such cute black cat arts 🙂
Ah yes, aging is hard…my bones have been giving me such hard time lately!
Brian Frum
Those black kitties are super cool!
easy rider
I love the biker cat, I did that too with my feet once and it ended not well :o) agree for the aging… I sometimes feel like a dinosaur :o)
Layla Morgan Wilde
Me too 🙂