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Knowing someone who belongs to another species can enlarge your soul in surprising ways.
Many young girls worship their older sisters. I was no exception. But my older sister was a dog,
Hers was the grace to which we appeal when we need strength or compassion of greater-than-human origin.
This is the gift great souls leave us when they die. They enlarge our hearts. They leave us a greater capacity for love.
A far worse mistake than misreading an animal’s emotions is to assume the animal hasn’t any emotions at all.
Being friends with an octopus—whatever that friendship meant to her—has shown me that our world, and the worlds around and within it, is aflame with shades of brilliance we cannot fathom—and is far more vibrant, far more holy, than we could ever imagine.
