Relationships (re-blogged ex 20-Nov-13)

The houses of our lives are built on foundations of the relationships they contain. There’s no denying it: without the various relationships we maintain, our houses would collapse and we’d be nothing. (Mostly, it doesn’t pay to study them too closely: better to simply accept them for what they are and get on with living, because there are many that don’t bear scrutiny.)

I was looking fondly at my mog, the other day – my marmalade tabby, Lui Stringer – and I was reflecting upon these facts:

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