The joy we get from our children’s happiness

On a beautiful autumn day years ago, I accidentally came home from a visit to a neighboring ranch with two new barn kittens: Nando, a male with the fluffy orange neck muff of a lion, and his sister Esme, black as coal, with white tufted ears. The pair quickly became my young son’s best friends, trailing him everywhere he went around the yard. If not for the fact that the two indoor cats I already…