I really love dogs and cats. I also really love elephants. I saw this really cool video of this pianist named Paul Barton, and he was playing piano for elephants at this elephant sanctuary in Thailand. It was beautiful and I could tell the elephants really loved it. I also really love armadillos. I saw a couple of them during my morning walks trudging across the road with their heavy armored shells. One of them slowly crossed the street to get to the other side, and the other time I saw one he was darting through people’s bushes as I was walking. I guess he wanted to avoid me because he must have suspected I was chasing him, which I wasn’t. I also really, really love bunnies! Every morning on my walk I would see these rabbits sitting on the lawns, quietly eating their grass in peace. When I walked past them, they would run away, probably as a defense mechanism since I am bigger than them and thus could potentially be a predator (then again, I’m a vegetarian, so I wouldn’t eat bunnies anyway.) Every time I was having a crummy morning, I would drive past this abandoned yard, and through the fence I would see a bunny sitting with its ears nestled on the sides of its head, nestled in the grass, quiet as can be, its large black eyes peering at me innocently. Of course, they’re not always great when it comes to people’s gardens because they eat people’s plants. One time I was visiting the garden of this lady who grew these incredibly beautiful iris flowers, and I saw a baby bunny scampering around in the garden. I went “AWWWW HOW CUTE!” and she was (jokingly…but also probably not jokingly) like, “Where’s my shotgun? Those things eat my plants.” There was one time a couple of year ago, I was really depressed at my job and often ate lunch alone in my car, and one day I saw a rabbit eating grass outside of my car window, and I wrote a poem about the bunny and the squirrel that joined it in eating grass. As I wrote the poem, I cried tears of appreciation. I was in a really dark place and seeing this bunny reminded me to have appreciation for those little moments in life that I take for granted.
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