Sy Montgomery: Animals are our teachers
October 3, 2018
Sy Montgomery took this call on her friend’s cell phone in a car somewhere in the San Francisco Bay area. She is on a book tour promoting “How to Be A Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals,” her twenty-first.
Her favorite animal is Thurber, her border collie “with a big stripe down his face like a lightning bolt down in front of his nose and a blind eye,” she says. Why? “He has taught me that no matter how hopeless things look there could be a miracle around the corner,” she said.
Montgomery was in a horrible depression after her dog Sallie died of a brain tumor. Thurber...
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