May 23rd "When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge. There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together. There is plenty of food, water and sunshine, and our friends are warm and comfortable. All the animals who had been ill and old are restored to health and vigor. Those who were hurt or maimed are made whole and strong again, just as we remember them in our dreams of days and times gone by. The animals are happy and content, except for one small thing; they each miss someone very special to them, who had to be left behind. They all run and play together, but the day comes when one suddenly stops and looks into the distance. Their bright eyes are intent. Their eager body quivers. Suddenly they begin to run from the group, flying over the green grass, their legs carrying them faster and faster. You have been spotted, and when you and your special friend finally meet, you cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again. The happy kisses rain upon your face; you take them into your arms and embrace and you look once more into the trusting eyes of your pet, so long gone from your life but never absent from your heart. Then you cross the Rainbow Bridge together, never again to be separated."
— Unknown, Rainbow Bridge
May 23rd "When you hurt people, they begin to love you less. That’s what careless words do. They make people love you a little less."
— Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
May 22nd "What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for and to do it so unconsciously."
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
May 2nd "It seems to me that the best art is political and you ought to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time."
— Toni Morrison
