I’ve gotten a lot more requests than I imagined I would have when I made that post yesterday about drawing your pets. So!
A few notes:
1. I’m going in order of emails received, if you don’t see yours soon, you will in the next month or so (also, I’m not going to do one every day continuously because I get bored easily and also, I work 12-14 hour days on the weekends).
2. You all have really great pets. I find the amount of love expressed for them in your emails to be very touching. It’s hard to talk about animals without anthropomorphizing them and, it can be harder still to reconcile oneself while anthropomorphizing animals without feeling a slight tinge of silliness or scientific dishonesty. But it’s important, I think, to embrace any connection you have with another creature as fully as you can express it without being cold or clinical. Rimbaud once said that genius is the recovery of childhood at will. Baudelaire said something similar, and I bet a lot of other poets have at least intimated such sentiment (I mean, I know they have, not just poets too, but these are the only quotes I can remember right now). I don’t know about genius, but there is a childlike sincerity in an appreciation of animals that lends itself easily to mending the bitterness readily offered through daily, hum-drum life as usual.
3. I’ve had a few beers and a couple of glasses of wine so I’m probably rambling, please, tell me to shut up.
