I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house. ― Nathaniel Hawthorne Nov 2018 Note: This blog post is available as a podcast. You can 🎙 listen to it here. 🎙 That's my girl. My sunshine. My Smile. My whole heaping heart. When I am down, she lifts me. When I …
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Animal Emotions and That Icky Sticky Fear
“Lacking a shared language, emotions are perhaps our most effective means of cross-species communication. We can share our emotions, we can understand the language of feelings, and that's why we form deep and enduring social bonds with many other beings. Emotions are the glue that binds.” ― Bekoff Ants teach. Earthworms make decisions. Rats …
All Creatures Great and Small
Yesterday, December 14, marked one year ago that the tragedy Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown Connecticut occurred. I'm not bringing this up to focus on the sadness or pain that it brought so many, but I wanted to share something beautiful that came from it. One of the students at that school believed in a …
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