090303 Glasgow
Glasgow
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I've become a wee weary with Garrison Keillor, but I whole-heartedly endorse this advice from a Salon interview, via Raymond:
If you could give me one piece of advice, what would it be?
Get outside more and take long walks. Much sadness is caused by lack of sunlight and exercise and visual stimulation.
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Speaking of walks, I've done plenty of walking lately, and gladly, too. The more than usual walking has come about because of our new charge, one Ruby, a lab mix (terrier and pit?), seven months old, who has been in our company four weeks now. Ruby-con. Ruby-ella. Ruby-at. Ruby-girl. Ruby-dooby. Ruby, no, come, no, good girl. No bark. No chew. Sit. Shhhhhhh. Good girl.
Where before I would walk and measure and note and absorb the trees, the sky, the light, distance and shape and shadow and how one thing overlaps another, now my mind is completely in the present, and spanning about four feet, and every few feet I'm talking out loud, "Good girl, good Ruby, don't pull, goooooood girrrrrlll." I'm noticing hardly anything anymore. What's more, I'm not used to talking so incessantly.
I don't mind conversation, but I'm quite quite entirably comfortable, thank you very much, with long periods of no talking. Now, it seems, I'm talking all the time, yap yap yap, and it's kind of one-sided. I'm feeling the pull of my brain as it changes shape and has to reconfigure into a talky brain, and it kind of hurts. I was happy with my old quiet internal dialogue brain. Now I have to have a happy doggie-talk brain. Owww. The sacrifices we make for the youngsters in our lives. There are times I feel like I'm back to teaching 8 and 9 year olds.
Ruby, West Ridge Trail off Skyline Gate, East Bay Regional Park, Oakland, 20030829
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Dear friend,
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We can't stand by and let this happen. These attacks on democracy are not a California issue or a Texas issue or a Florida issue -- we all must step forward together and make it clear that elections will be honored in this country.
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Thank you.
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