Lily and the Octopus

by Steven Rowley

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.

Everyone dies. Not everyone really lives.