Maybe the World is Beautiful and Worth Fighting For

On a chance encounter with a new friend over...cats

Last night, I was feeding a family of stray cats and my neighbor comes out, on her way to Target to return a humidifier, and we engage in some banal chit chat about the cats, how we love animals, how it pains us so many of them suffer and how our Airbnb host wants to spread poison on the property to kill them.

And then I did the thing I normally don’t d…