BLANKA TERESA

FLISIUK PERIDOT

The history of our family, includes our animals, who were/are always part of the family. They gave us hapinness and also, unfortunately, sadness of loss. We respect the animal wisdom, learning about animals, as much, as it is possibly revealed to humans. There was also always the motif of the " neighbour's pets " - we've got to know, and even secretly fed them. There was the "angry " watchdog in some business in North Dakota, whom I was buying meat and bones, who, was running alongside me, on the other side of the fence on my jogging route.

Abracham, who stayed with us; "moved in", and slept in Carmen's baby crib. They were everywhere with us, or we were for them - the neighbour's pets, so many of them we've got to love.

We do not buy " pet food "; we cook for them, and share our foods. We wonder about animal's instincts, intelligence, and delightful behaviours of different, distinct personalities. We recognize animals' "secret" given to humans, and try to understand their biblical meaning. It's obvious that animals hold some key answer, which many don't even realize, ignore, and those who seek it, are unable to penetrate it.

There is so many pivotal aspects to the animal existence , we do not understand, but we live and co-exist together, and it would be a good start, if humans were not altering animal's ( existence), for if they do, it's most likely to be destructive to them.