Having been a passionate news junkie for decades and trying to express to my family and friends my concerns I feel like Henry is in the majority. Not when it comes to the Chiefs in the Kansas City area where I live but , yeah, about everything else.
This column wasn't meant to be an allegory, but, yeah. Indifference and complacency are not good. The only more not good thing we're dealing with is 70 million fascist morons.
I have two words: Labrador retriever. They tend to be the antiHenry, passionate about everything with food leading the parade, eager to walk, driven to retrieve, desperate for your every sign of affection. My third is closing fast on her 13th birthday. She is unlikely to celebrate her 14th I'm sad to say. She has been an extraordinary companion.
She still goes on a one mile walk with me every morning though now I have to lift her in and out of the back of the Forester. She was never fond of the long hikes - even in her youth she was a three-miler. She'd do the 10 and 12 mile hikes but let it be known after 3 that this was for me not for her. Now she's had major orthopedic surgery on both stifles and has her share of osteoarthritis. So one mile is the magic. And the swimming which she dearly loved is out after a couple of vestibular events.
But life is still good for the lioness in winter. The Honeycrisp apples are now perfectly ripe and she eats her fill. Before that it was the peaches and the plums before that. Soon it will be back to a steady diet of kibble yet every morning and every evening you'd think the coming meal was going to be a great surprise, a culinary masterpiece that demands to be consumed in the shortest possible period of time.
I hope she gets another spring. Springtime has always been her favorite time of year with the air alive with an explosion of new scents. If not she will take her place under the big willow and in her way be part of the new scents and colors of April.
Having been a passionate news junkie for decades and trying to express to my family and friends my concerns I feel like Henry is in the majority. Not when it comes to the Chiefs in the Kansas City area where I live but , yeah, about everything else.
This column wasn't meant to be an allegory, but, yeah. Indifference and complacency are not good. The only more not good thing we're dealing with is 70 million fascist morons.
I have two words: Labrador retriever. They tend to be the antiHenry, passionate about everything with food leading the parade, eager to walk, driven to retrieve, desperate for your every sign of affection. My third is closing fast on her 13th birthday. She is unlikely to celebrate her 14th I'm sad to say. She has been an extraordinary companion.
She still goes on a one mile walk with me every morning though now I have to lift her in and out of the back of the Forester. She was never fond of the long hikes - even in her youth she was a three-miler. She'd do the 10 and 12 mile hikes but let it be known after 3 that this was for me not for her. Now she's had major orthopedic surgery on both stifles and has her share of osteoarthritis. So one mile is the magic. And the swimming which she dearly loved is out after a couple of vestibular events.
But life is still good for the lioness in winter. The Honeycrisp apples are now perfectly ripe and she eats her fill. Before that it was the peaches and the plums before that. Soon it will be back to a steady diet of kibble yet every morning and every evening you'd think the coming meal was going to be a great surprise, a culinary masterpiece that demands to be consumed in the shortest possible period of time.
I hope she gets another spring. Springtime has always been her favorite time of year with the air alive with an explosion of new scents. If not she will take her place under the big willow and in her way be part of the new scents and colors of April.
She's a good dog.
You have quite a bit of Aldo Leopold in you
I wish! But thank you for the compliment, though it is hardly deserved.
Thanks! The "politics, media, and society" part is a waste of time if there isn't someone you love to give it meaning.