To quote Cyndi: I just love love you and love your writing. makes me think.........
of how I objectified the pets we had in our family, how I grew up in a family intolerant or suspicious of animals - and I guess of people who were "other". How Mimi, Machete and Basin have introduced me to dogs as beings, as subjects, not objects. For that, I am grateful. And I love how your writing connects a specific realization to larger bigger things about myself and how I live.
I absolutely love this - can I subscribe to these comments on the regular. Oh wait I do! Ahh so this too. When it comes to the mice... I think you can understand and respect their subjectivity and also set and hold your boundary. You can shift the venn diagram so that you have less of an overlap, that's OK. That's allowed, probably needed, probably hygienic :) When we battle "infestations" of any kind, it's really a unique experience to be like, wow, so this is being rolled by a wave. Reminder that we're in the minority in so so many ways. Love to you and the mice. Your words and love and support are everything!!
To quote Cyndi: I just love love you and love your writing. makes me think.........
of how I objectified the pets we had in our family, how I grew up in a family intolerant or suspicious of animals - and I guess of people who were "other". How Mimi, Machete and Basin have introduced me to dogs as beings, as subjects, not objects. For that, I am grateful. And I love how your writing connects a specific realization to larger bigger things about myself and how I live.
So true that it's a learned and often unconscious approach to relating that can absolutely be rewired <3
I absolutely love this - can I subscribe to these comments on the regular. Oh wait I do! Ahh so this too. When it comes to the mice... I think you can understand and respect their subjectivity and also set and hold your boundary. You can shift the venn diagram so that you have less of an overlap, that's OK. That's allowed, probably needed, probably hygienic :) When we battle "infestations" of any kind, it's really a unique experience to be like, wow, so this is being rolled by a wave. Reminder that we're in the minority in so so many ways. Love to you and the mice. Your words and love and support are everything!!