My doggy UMWELT

What it is like...

It is close to the ground...

It is lickable...

It either fits in the mouth or is too big for the mouth...

It is full of details...

It is in the moment...

It is fleeting and fast...

It is written all over their faces...

It reads like a poem but the text above is an excerpt

from the table of contents of

INSIDE OF A DOG What Dogs See, Smell, and Know.

Dog ear a page or two for your person

so they may better understand and learn from you.

Dog Psalm #19

Bathe in the light.

Catch rays at every opportunity

on brilliant winter mornings or in the glooming.

Rest in it.
Restore in it.

Those moments when the Great Spirit

can touch you with beams of
warmth, strength, hope.

Moments of recognition and hope that

energize your spirit

 

Light is a source that can cause

your aura to glow.

Embrace and allow it.

Go forth and illuminate.

The Golden Chair

It was more than a decade ago that she found the golden chair

on a morning walk with another dog before I was even born.

I can feel her in this chair.

All her hours in it over the years.

The journeys she's made in it.

I journey in it too.

Watching the world,

considering the consequences.

Hedgeburt

is a pincushion hedgehog

as is his pal Hank.

 

 They are handy but prickly.

Kiss them gently, hug them softly.

I was dreaming

about waffles

and fried chicken.

Let's have some.

Dog Psalm for Haiti

May humanity save us all.

May grace lift our spirits

and courage accompany us
those trapped and suffering,
those rescuing and hindered.

May we not be voyeurs to suffering

but solutions to catastrophes.

May we each

GIVE

all that we can.

May we recognize and respond to the fact that
Haiti will need our support for many years to come.

May helpers embrace humility.
Haiti is our teacher. Her lesson?
How to begin, yet, again. And again, again.

Great and Holy Spirit
be constantly present with us.
We call upon you.

Penguin Line Up

Hey Man,

I'm telling you the truth.

I'm just incubating this egg.

 

Oh man come on.

Yeah I was in the area.
So were 65,000 other penguins who look like me.

Frog-golye

 Gets inside a book.

 

Visits with art. Takes the time to look.

 

Hey, I think that's my Grandpa.

Esmerelda

is a seer

who doesn't suffer fools gladly.

She dispatches Pierre

her trustworthy man-servant;

'Go tell them the truth -

Expect more harsh conditions.'

Storm Watch

First I felt it, then I saw it gathering.

 

 It crept in on cat feet.

 

and passed through as quietly as coyotes.

 

Smile Detection

Something bad happened to the camera. Now the LED screen shows a spider web of cracks and big jagged black spot.  So it seemed time to shop for a new camera.  And that is when we discovered a new technology called "face detection" that senses when the smile is most natural.

More and more life is like a Ray Bradbury story.

In the above photo I'm fake smiling.

And in the photo below I'm smirking.

Would a new camera have "allowed" it?

Maybe we can just power on with the broken LED?

Three Little Maids

 

 Three little maids from school are we

Pert as a school-girl well can be

Filled to the brim with girlish glee

Three little maids from school

 

Everything is a source of fun

Nobody's safe, for we care none

Life is a joke that's just begun

Three little maids from school

  

Three little maids who, all unwary

Come from a ladies' seminary

Freed from its genius tutelary

Three little maids from school.

Three Little Maids From School