Lily and the Octopus

by Steven Rowley

“Today me will live in the moment, unless it’s unpleasant, in which case me will eat a cookie.”

Someone once said give a dog food and shelter and treats and they think you are a god, but give a cat the same and they think they are the god.

We’re too often guilty of thinking that our parents arrived on this planet as fully functioning adults on the day that we were born. That they don’t have pasts of their own prior to our birth. That the father is not also a son, that the mother is not also a child.

Dogs don’t live as long as people. In my head, I knew this. But to think that there would come a day when we would part was to take the joy out of a day we had together.