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Love the setting, rain-soaked mossy Oregon.

I am totally reading this book because it is about a woman and her dog — and then the dog turns out to have a cute name, Moss, and then it turns out to be a small black cocker spaniel with brown eyes. 10/10 recommend

Absolutely beautiful.

Prince Zorander in his "robe of dead things": "...cloth-of-gold, and the hides and furs of a great many animals, which might otherwise have been living their own lives."

A unicorn reconstructed from bones, rainbow skull, black unicorn. "Evidently Tanaquil's world was all wrong, a place where you could only live by murdering other creatures. Every animal preyed on another...In the perfect world there was a perfect food which all ate. It was not alive. It did not have to be attacked or slaughtered."

Jason Schneiderman, Staircase

"You can gently feel and bond with the lichen" Manifesto of Fragility/Terraform, Erika Meitner

"With my sacred power I am traveling." Navaho, Blessing Way

"always on the verge/ of flowering/ into a future/ that will not reliably come" — Taking the Magnolia, Paisley Rekdal

Canine Superpowers: "We stroll the grounds and stop at every tree./Their noses lead to everything I see." — Michael Kleber-Diggs

Lovely.

"You belong to the world, animal. Deal with it." You Belong to the World, Carrie Fountain

By the Light of the Stars, A Rabbit Egg for Flora, Abso

"While stories can provide information and help us remember, they can also help us heal. Of course, animals cannot write their own stories, but we can write the stories of our lives with them."

"Our animals' lives are intertwined with our own, physically, emotionally, even spiritually — as they should be, because, unless something goes wrong, our is the only home they'll ever know. We thus have a responsibility to them that is different from our responsibility to children, yet no less sacred."

the laying on of hands

"If we want to see a better future for all living creatures, we need to start by imagining it. And what better place to do this than in stories."

"You may think that it is your body that controls your life, but it is your mind and spirit that has all the power." --I like this, and yet, we ignore our animal bodies too much these days.

Reading these stories is very comforting.