joy among the animal nerds

The other night I had the good fortune to attend a reading by Virginia Morell, whose Animal Wise: The Thoughts and Emotions of Our Fellow Creatures was just published. There, in the darkened corner of Book Passage in Corte Madera where we listened to Virginia and watched her slide show, I tried and mostly failed to keep the tears back.  

Tears of elation, really: among the animal nerds, I am with my people.

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