Note: in the honor of fairness, the following recounted memory has been, what Gary would call “Texas Sized”. Where I come from it is simply the time honored tradition of not boring your audience.
We also believed making cookies for the moving men was not manipulation or a bribe ..but rather just “loving them to their goal”.
With that in mind, enjoy the following cautionary tale of roller coasters and kids first roller coaster rides. Otherwise known as “aw c’mon ya big baby! It cant hurt you!”
I wrote this in reply to a post from a friend who had convinced their nephew to go on a roller-coaster despite his fear of them.
I don’t know why i feel I must keep posting to this site. I suppose I need to for an outlet even if no one ever really see’s my words. There’s always a slim hope that something I say will some day pop up in google and help someone I don’t know. So I post.
Today was hard. Very hard. I felt very close to a breakdown.
Update:
Boman, my oldest Golden, turns 14 this November 2008. He has been a constant source of joy and love for me through some of the hardest times of my life. He is one of the most special dogs I’ve ever known. Last week he had an accident that left me terrified…. but only for a short while. He is safe and sound now and acts as if nothing ever happened. This is the story of his great fall off a ledge high above the Skycomish river that flows behind my house.
You can tell a lot about a civilization by how they treat their animals. “as you have done unto the least of these..”
Gary and Sophie have a bond that’s a joy to watch. She is so expressive with her eyes and ears. I swear she gets the most mischievous grin on her face sometimes…. Especially when she gets her way or pulls something over on Libby.
Today is Alice Eve.
Sometimes a joke is best left unsaid. The payoff isn’t worth the backfire.
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I’ve been watching the Peterson footage of Bigfoot lately. I don’t know why it’s cropped up so much in my life lately. It seems that while I’m thinking of a thing, or exploring it in my book, it seems to be around me much more than usual, as if the energies out there want to support me or I’m drawing those things to me. Read the rest of this entry »