Sublime

In the 1930s, Max Kleiber, a Swiss agricultural biologist, observed that, across mammal species, from shrews to elephants, the energy required to maintain basic metabolic function is closely correlated with an organism’s body size.

A few years before Cary began practicing minimalism, she and her soon-to-be husband, Cam, moved into an apartment together. They negotiated and bargained and argued about whose duplicate items would stay and whose would have to go. Rather than compromise, they did what any other duo of stubborn twenty-five-year-olds would do: they stuffed two apart

There’s nothing to get. We’re ugly. Have you been to the zoo lately? You should go. Take Jonah with you, it will be good for him. See the placid zebra strolling in his field. Witness the mighty lion lazing in the sun. Smile at the droopy-eyed camel enjoying a mouthful of grass. Then go to the monkey house. Go see your forefathers. They are, by far,

speculating about the canine brought him closer to Nira as well.

Andy’s friend Jon and his girlfriend went travelling for a month and we agreed to look after their cat, called Doris. I changed Doris’s litter, I fed her, I gave her her medicine, I played with her when she yowled. Andy did nothing but stroke her when she sat next to him on the sofa.