after that last post, i saw a book, modern animal: a cycle of lectures on the modern lives of animals by yevgenia belorusets. in the book she looks at life through the lens of animals and writes about the difference between animals and humans. she writes about loneliness, war, spirituality and love and says these are not only human subjects. she shows a picture of animal tracks: where the animal leads us. we see animals always searching for something, like us. we often see animals abstractly, the way we see life. sometimes for moments it seems we see almost identically, the way the animal sees. yet we keep humanly wanting to abstract things, to see them in their own context—but their own context is the world. if we get to know an animal well we may well see with them what we both, and each, see together. we may think we know what they're thinking, and they may be thinking, i think i know what you're thinking. or they may be amused, thinking how wonderfully mysteriously inscrutable life is.