Different

I notice that my canary, Jac, always eats when I do.  My dogs and cats used to do that too.  I’m not sure what that means, but it seems to suggest to me that there is something important about eating together, something that is more than a nicety, or human custom.

It also tells me that Jac is aware of what I do and much more sentient than most people might think.

Human beings have a tendency to believe that small things don’t feel as much as big ones.

Well, now I think about it.  Human beings have had a tendency to believe that only adult people of the same gender, economic bracket, color, culture and size and ideologies are truly sentient. 

Everyone else is “different,” usually meaning sub standard in some way.  And that goes both ways, snobs and reverse snobs!

In fact, there were so many differences that came to mind I had trouble deciding which ones to list!

Maybe it’s time we started focusing on what we have in common.  That seems like a much less daunting task.

Of course, once you start something like that, you never know how huge it might become.