You have heard of comfort food, right? Or Saturday clothes? Or sliding into your favorite slippers. Well - Animal books are my comfort reads and one of my favorite writers of animal stories is Sy Montgomery.
This book contains 13 animal stories - from dogs to pigs to spiders and even Matschie's tree kangaroo (look it up - they are just so cute). Each of these stories shares a connection between people and animals. And all of those stories together are balm for my soul.
I hope you find some sort of comfort book - a type of book that you return to again and again in order to make everything feel right in your world.
"Just being with any animal is edifying, for each has a knowing that surpasses human understanding. A spider can taste the world with her feet. Birds can see colors we can't begin to describe. A cricket can sing with his legs and listen with his knees. A dog can hear sounds above the level of human hearing, and can tell if you're upset even before you are aware of it yourself." (Sy Montgomery in the introduction)
All of those facts seem like little miracles to me. They fill me with awe. And they make my world a richer place to live. And yes, all of that is comforting.
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