"You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves." ~ Mary Oliver

Photograph by Edward Weston

..."let the soft animal of your body love what it loves"... and it loves you! Why else would it fight infection, circulate blood, process nutrients, hold you up, and help you move. I wish that you could sense what I sense; maybe you can -- that our bodies love us like our animal friends do. Some of us are more able to feel love from and towards our pets than from our people! What if our bodies were loving us the same way our pets are? We ARE animals after all. We are made of the same stuff as our pets.