We're all in different places together, sharing the experience of having little in common. Do our ven diagrams overlap? Are we orthogonal? Sometimes I am struck by our diversity and I am amazed that we can communicate. How can we be the same species? Hey Nineteen.
"Tell me about despair, yours, and I'll tell you mine." I am largely unconcerned with the state of things. I typically stare at the world and wonder that things are so good. Many of my friends disagree with me on this point. I think, as I told a friend recently, that it's because I'm so ambivalent. He's more pointedly leftist than I am, and he measures the goodness of the world by its leftness. I have few criteria; I may not have any. I just sort of look around and think, "Wow. Look at all this. Amazing."
On Father's Day I was driving through my neighborhood with my kids and we saw two dogs, a Basset Hound and a Yellow Lab, running around in the rain. They looked friendly and had collars with tags. I stopped near them and lowered my car window and the Yellow Lab trotted over, his tail wagging. I reached out to pet him and he put his feet up on the door and licked my hand. I looked at his tag and saw the name and then, patting him on the head, turned to my son. "Do you know a family named...," I started to say. Then, much to my shock and surprise, the Yellow Lab leapt through the window and landed in my lap. He was soaking wet and frisky, wagging his tail and looking around happily. In between bouts of laughter, I tried to push him back through the window, but he just kept licking my face.
Then I maneuvered him around so that his head was facing the window and I gave him an encouraging nudge. He jumped back out through the window and ran off to find his friend. I was wet and muddy and I stunk like wet dog. My car was coated with mud and Yellow Lab fur sheddings. We laughed about it all the way home.
I think I'm a lot like that dog. If I'm not, I want to be.
Hello, friends. How are you today?
Later. Love.
P. S. - I don't know why I insist on posting these terrible phone pictures of myself. I should choose a mascot or a really hot model and let him be the "Scott" for my blog. It would be better for the marketing and whatnot. Thanks for stopping by.
