My best friend and my witness
to own a dog was aspirational, it signalled you had settled into a neighbourhood, you knew its parks, you maybe had a partner to share the walking and fawning duties, perhaps a precursor to having children.
Various • Dog Hearted: Essays on Our Fierce and Familiar Companions
How to Love Yourself and How to Love Another: A Playful and Poignant Vintage Illustrated Fable About Cherishing the Particular
Maria Popovathemarginalian.org
In the end, the boy discovers what we all must eventually, if we are to grow into the full bigness of the heart: that in every relationship of trust and tenderness, each is the guardian of the other’s particularity; that to love someone not for the comfort or compliance they can give you but for exactly who they are, the special and particular pers... See more