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Weekly Photo Recap #3
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Dog walks in nature are good. Crazy puppy can be off leash and risk sticking his nose in gopher holes. Pupper runs and leaps, skips and jumps.The moment I try to photograph the Peregrine Falcon, he flies from his perch. The thorned pod reminds me that Autumn is here, and the red berries, that Christmas is on the way.
A friend recently lost her pet. I said, “when Krishna died I was so brokenhearted. Like he, and only he knew me the best. Deeper than humanity.”
She said, “Right. You nailed it.”
Got me to thinking about a favorite poem.
WILD GEESE
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting —
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.-Mary Oliver
I love the line, “you only have to let the soft animal of your body/ love what it loves.”
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Weekly Photo Recap #3
Well, here it is dark outside. I’m sooooo tired and have been doing all sorts of things today. Luckily, it’s Microblog Monday!
I am more energetic and also in more pain, so lots of exercise of the walking kind was in order today to get the blood pumping. Along the way I took lots of pictures of pops of color, which was today’s photo prompt. I’m not super happy with any of them, and wish I could edit them better or more or something. I’d like black frames, because they would give the color pops extra pop, but I’m too tired. Been trying this app and that, and have come to two conclusions:
1. I need to allow this post to be imperfect.
2. I need to learn photoshop.
These are both things that have to do with making my life easier. First, it’s just easier sometimes to say, “this is what I can do today. The end.” Secondly, sometimes you gotta do something hard to make things easier. Project Easier sometimes should be called “Project Contradictory.”
Another hard thing that we did today to make things easier in the future: Pupper and I walked to visit friends who have a new big dog, in addition to their old big dog with whom we are already friends. It was a barking, growling fest as three shelter dogs got to know each other. It was rough, as we two dog moms sometimes feel that we were raised in shelters too. Everyone getting altogether too frazzled. Too fast. Too much. Dogs barking and growling. So tiring. We thinking we might be doing it wrong. Most likely, they’ll all three be hanging out happily in a couple of weeks or maybe sooner.
It was FH’s last day at a job where his boss has been less than pleasant toward him for two years. So hoorays were in order. A lovely Indian Buffet Feast. So full. I know that the new job will be so much easier. FH and I seem to have let this grouchy person invade our relationship somehow. I think that the unpleasant boss has been projecting his anger onto FH, and then FH projecting it on to me, and then me, acting frustrated and confused. Maybe I’ve had too much therapy, but the fact remains that if people don’t express their bad feelings, someone else winds up experiencing those feelings and it’s not fair or fun. It’s weird. I’m burning sage like a madwoman to clear the air! Life as an empath. Very strange.
This is turning out not to be very micro, but here’s the lovely badge for MicroBlog Mondays!
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