This post is a goodbye and a statement of gratitude for my friend Jesse Lambert, who died on December 22. Gratitude at year's end I took a break from blogging about philosophy last New Year's to say goodbye to my rat Gabrielle, who passed away in December 2017. Though the post was mostly a collection of happy memories about Gabi, it also was an expression of a philosophical tension I have been trying to work through: how to acknowledge my gratitude for the emotional labour companion animals … [Read more...]