A little busy at the moment.

photo by: E

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Contemplative

 

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To Be This

"Make your own Bible.

Select and collect all the words and sentences that

in all your readings

have been to you like the blast of a trumpet."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Got food?

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To Be This

"Do not go where the path may lead,

go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Have a seat.

Let's talk.

ROTFLMAO

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Dog of a Thousand Faces

Here are 4:

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To Be This

"Life is just a blank slate,
what matters most is what you write on it."

~ Christine Franklin

Say

CHEESE!

To Be This

"No person is your friend

who demands your silence

or denies your right to grow."

~ Alice Walker

To Be This

"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Before and After

Last Year:

This year:

Wasps.

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Step 1: Rain

Step 2:

Do I want to dance?

Me?

Hmmm

Can't touch this!

What good manners you have.

Nothing.

What?

Curiosity

Pepper has been with us for a little over a month now and sometimes I am so curious about what she thinks. It's impossible not to wonder what her story was before I met her and I can't help but wonder how it compares to the life she has now. Is she happy? Is this better? What does she need?

I am amazed by how well she fits in here. She and Pickle make this really cool team and I keep discovering new ways that's true. Just the other night I noticed that, though Pickle won't share his Kongs, he will let Pepper follow along and lick up his crumbs. Writing that now, I realize that it doesn't sound all that great - though it really cuts down on my vacuuming. Pepper gets his measly crumbs - big whoop.  But it serves as a good hour of entertainment for the both of them, so I think it's a semi-fair deal.

We are still figuring out which one of them is the alpha, and sometimes I wonder if it's even necessary to know. But I think it is. I can tell the difference when a dog respects you - human or canine - and when he doesn't. I have the same philosophy with them that I have with my classes - I don't rule with fear. Instead, with the dogs and sometimes with the students, I use what wise parents everywhere have used. I get disappointed in them. They hate that!

(They aren't in trouble here, just tired from playing tackle)



Things are going well. For me. For Pickle. And I think for Pepper too. I just wish she could let me know.



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To Be This

"I once decided not to date a guy because he wasn't excited to meet my dog.

I mean, this was like not wanting to meet my mother."

 
  ~ Bonnie Schacter

 

 

To Be This

"To be yourself

in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else

is the greatest accomplishment."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Video: Lazy Play

"How to play when you just don't feel like getting up" with the bonus track "Dramatic interpretation of a rollover."

Poem: Ode to a Dog

I can’t write this

with you outside

it occurs to me

that this is weird

weirder than my pile habit

or issues with buffet restaurants

though not as weird as my ex-husband

who put war paint on

to hunt squirrels from the porch

definitely weirder than my beef jerky obsession

and what I did to my hair in the 80s

but not half as strange as

what happened at church camp when I was 12

and so I am a little flummoxed

and overly critical

as is my nature, I guess

analysis and interpretation

not favorable

highlighting the interminable

tattoos of issues

etched where muscle used to be

backbone less

spine wavering

tenuous from tip to tip

tripping on intricate illusions

in on one sided conversations

with the better part of myself

not saying much

in response I nod

it goes unheard

I go on

like a tick

tick

tick

you’ve been gone too long

To Be This

"Finish every day and be done with it.

You have done what you could;

some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in;

forget them as soon as you can.

Tomorrow is a new day;

you shall begin it serenely

and with too high a spirit

to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

To Be This

"The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him

and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too."

    

~ Samuel Butler

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Damn Dude

You need a mint!

Nosey

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To Be This

A dog is one of the remaining reasons

why some people can be persuaded to go for a walk. 

~ O.A. Battista

To Be This

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

 

~Carl Sagan

I <3 BrainyQuotes

To Be This

Use what talents you possess.

The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

~ Henry Van Dyke

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