Sit down, stay a while

Everyone in life deals with pain. Sometimes you're privileged enough to only feel small pains in your life. A broken finger. A break up after a short relationship. A friendship going sour. Others feel pain we can hardly imagine, and have to experience it through books and movies to even receive a modicum of understanding. The loss of a cherished pet. The death of a child. Paralysis and decay. Those events leave wounds in our bodies and souls that can takes years to heal, if t

Communication is key. Every day we hear some version of it, but we rarely think about communication itself. I recently had an experience that showed me a lot about the nature of communication. A friend of mine needed someone to watch his cat for a week or so while he fixed up his house. I was a bit hesitant at first since I don't have that much extra space and I have two cats already that are very protective of their space, but I agreed for the sake of the cat. Her name is St