Day 3,694: Brut Nature

The Joy; she press so hard up against me at night. It fills me up. Dogs (and cats) are so devoted to us. If you give them love and attention, take care of their needs, you are everything to them. The whole world. It’s so wonderful to be needed like that, and in that special, simple, easy way that they need us. Its so different from a human, right, because we’re so much more complicated. But with our animals, it’s a special kind of “needed.” We have a specifically-shaped hole inside us that they ...