feline familiar

art story 2025, creativity, culture, diary, dream, entertainment, fragments, plum doodle, poetry, process, , , , 9 Comments

Plum Doodles 420, 421, 422

journal fragment from of July 25, 2025

Dreamed about giving tarot readings.

I dreamed of other things but I don’t remember.

Too hot.

 

I spy a cat on Timoteo’s lap.
What color are her stripes?
They’re the color of the night!

August 3rd, 2025
Hudson Valley, NY

10,000 Plum Doodles Project 

I often use scribbles as the genesis for paintings. These squiggles carry energy for me, and on their own, they tell a story. I call them plums because they are little treats for my imagination. I will continue adding to this project until I have reached 10,000 drawings.

John S. Hall’s 10,000 Poems Project inspired me – but rather than writing – I decided to collect my drawings. Sometimes I write when I doodle, and sometimes I share the writing as well.

Discover more from holly troy ~ sacred folly

Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.

Unknown's avatar

Posted by

Holly hails from an illustrious lineage of fortune tellers, yogis, folk healers, troubadours and poets of the fine and mystical arts. Shape-shifting Tantric Siren of the Lunar Mysteries, she surfs the ebbs and flows of the multiverse on the Pure Sound of Creation. Her alchemy is Sacred Folly — revolutionary transformation through Love, deep play, Beauty, and music.

9 thoughts on “feline familiar”

  3. Wow, 10,000! So, per Malcolm Gladwell’s “Outliers” thesis, if you’d spent an hour on each one you’d have attained mastery over plum doodling by the time you completed the last… Familiar, famiglia. Yes (I may have mentioned it before): I think that’s the origin. Wise women living alone and close to nature in Italy (perhaps called “streghe” by the Pope-pandering patriarchy) whose “famiglia” consisted of animals with whom they had formed social bonds. Felines, sure, maybe even the occasional old lone wolf. (X-ref the late Michael Blake’s novel, which he dedicated to Exene Cervenka for letting him live in her house while writing it…)

    Liked by 1 person

    Reply

    1. If I paint only a fraction of the plums – I will surpass 10,000 hours. Doodling, posting, and writing – maybe that will take 10,000 hours.

      Dancing with cats, with wolves – more preferable than dancing with most humans.

      Like

      Reply

  4. Holly, you had me when I saw the title of your blog post. Especially as someone with four cats (two of which are my primary and secondary Feline Familiars), how could I not read this? Also, when I began reading the text of the post, I first thought it was a Haiku, but it is not (smile).

    Liked by 1 person

    Reply

Did this post excite you? Tell me about it . . .