Category: veganism
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even a BUCKET of popcorn unfortunately did not help relieve the depressing fact … my reaction to the hunger games phenomenon
in response to my son roy sexton’s review of the latest hunger games movie and inspired by this great exchange he had with wonderful arlene steinberg … thanks to roy for intellectualizing this utterly useless series of absolute sh*t! what has happened to great literary achievements and their often successful cinematic treatments? this is THE dumbest franchise methinks…maybe you can convince
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my amender is all worn out
I can’t make amends…my amender is all worn out…and I never get amends back from anybody i try to make them with…if you get my drift? but I heartily agree with the nobility of the suggestion, beth! (by the way, beth replied: “got it, susie. no amending fences” – punny!) please check out ASPCA | ASPCA’s Fundraiser on
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my glass is half full of frazzlement …
TOPIC: Is the human species the most devilish on the planet? The diary of two animal welfare campaigners at the world’s biggest ritual slaughter The importance of animal welfare and animal rights cannot even be adequately described…the cluelessness and ignorance and self-centeredness of humanity too frequently boggles a sane person’s mind. How can anyone ignore
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Sorry I missed the cut-off signals! Me and my son on The Kevin Storm Show
Thoroughly enjoyed conversing with Kevin Storm and his mom Susan and my son Roy on The Kevin Storm Show …such fun! Thanks for inviting us, Susan…very impressed with your questions. Sorry I missed the cut-off signals! View/listen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icQnt… My son Roy Sexton wrote: “Please enjoy this video of my mother Susie Duncan Sexton and me on The Kevin Storm
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Top of my totem pole – New Year’s pledge 2015
“Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.” ~ William Shakespeare HAPPY 2015, GOOD PEOPLE…THANKS FOR CARING ABOUT ALL SPECIES ON EARTH! I pledge to do my best for all creatures great and small this year…pigs at the top of my totem pole…see SPECIESISM, THE MOVIE for that reference–the outtakes…blessings on you…no crates, no artificial insemination,
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We were meant to be the caretakers of all here on Earth
When Christie Brinkley turned the big 6-0 she opened up to Harper’s Bazaar about how she looks just as good as when she hit the modeling scene 40 years earlier. “I haven’t touched a piece of meat since I read a graphic description of Chicago’s slaughterhouses when I was 12,” she told the mag. “Over the years
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He prayeth well, who loveth well.
save Indiana from being sold off for greed… senate panel considers banning local limits on factory farms obviously republicans care neither about human nor animal welfare…protest this effort…no matter what party you are affiliated with…do not let human greed destroy our state…do not be fooled by these efforts…this is blood money…this is a horror…this is terrorism…even
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We are all worthy of blame. 2015.
St. Patrick’s Parish: Cancel Animal Fighting Contest – Support this petition! How about getting this crap cancelled in Indiana too – nothing “FAIR” about this thuggery. It is not wholesome, but kinky and evil and humiliating – not cute but tragic and ignorant and a horrid example for all. AND Adding “beer tents” to the
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Got (almond) milk? Books, movies, politics, culture, and AGRIganda
A photograph of my bed? Wow! A really firm mattress is possible! Thanks to delightful Sheryl Mandel for sending this … Well, Sheryl, I am on the 7th of my nine lives, and if I were to pull out a book to read from that bed, I’d be lopsided…as usual! So I just try to
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Enough…enough. No more denial from any one of us. EARTHLINGS (film)
“As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields.” – Count Leo Tolstoy I watched the documentary EARTHLINGS which arrived from AUSTRALIA today, and now I’ll never be the same. I care even more than I did already about even-ing up the score on behalf of all of those species so much in need of help
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Where is Jay Leno when we need him? Three stories
Thanks to fellow author and animal lover Jim Robertson for reblogging my piece, which follows, to his Exposing the Big Game … 1) Unlikely friendship of a dog and an owl … Okay! So, why can’t humans simmer down and be nice and stop eating other species? AND stop warring with one another? AND stop worrying and start being
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Right with you, Rumpy! The unyielding, essential heartache of advocacy
Choosing My Battles and Moving On: I am so totally relating to this honest appraisal of how f-ed up animal welfare can become. Bravo to Rumpy for taking this issue on; the species, including homo sapiens, should all be on the same page or the animals lose again…as always. As far as talking with elected
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And nobody ain’t sayin’ nothin’! How our mistreatment of the environment is killing us all
I was just thinking about the part climate change plays in our lives, and the role the agriculture industry has played in ruining the ecology. If I hear about one more person with a mystery affliction in our local area 10 miles from one of the hugest pig “industries” in this nation, I am tapping
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Where is James Bond when we need him? Indiana’s “religious freedom” measure, “ag days,” and other hypocritical horrors (2015)
INDIANA…UGH! Now 40 representatives (all Republicans) have voted that humans can be fired or not hired because of their religions or lack of…religions??! House panel approves religious freedom bill Where is James Bond when we need him? Oh, wait, here he is … Yay! New movie this holiday season…except I am staying HOME next winter
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Clap your hands
“If you are happy and you know it, clap your hands” ….If you love all living beings, click SHARE! Help out. Put your heart where your mouth is – let’s find shelter animals the homes they deserve. Now, THAT IS RELIGION! No matter what the religion is named (and there are very many) humans seem
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From Kat Kelly-Heinzelman: Families That We Make
To my friend/family Kat Kelly-Heinzelman: Tears welling in my eyes, a smile on my face at the same time? What a poignant and revelatory essay, Kat! Read “Families That We Make” here: https://lighthousekat.wordpress.com/2… Your paragraphs about Roy and me moved me beyond words at a time I sorely needed a kind nod my way…I love people
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4-H Values NOT reflected in pig-wrestling – Whitley County, Indiana (from 2015)
Proud of my husband Don for this letter to the editor, regarding the upcoming pig wrestling (!) event at our local 4-H Fair this summer. So ashamed that such a cruel activity involving children and animals is occurring in this town where I grew up and still live. Unreal. This just in! Someone has started
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Centuries of yesterdays have come and gone
Click here for little Magoa who desperately needs a rescuer. What a doll. The folks who kill these precious souls hopefully toss and turn at night. This is America; we are not Romania nor Russia. NOKILL should be the immediate plan on which we are all working…and yesterday!!!!!! And how about Frida here – please click share and help
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I am sensitive about animals suffering, but if we look away we cannot help.
Just now added a new friend to my life, and she got me to thinking as I messaged her and realized that this post applies to nearly my entire list of friends. So here goes…my love note to you all, and you know who you are! She is the best as are you folks!!!!! And
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Remember trying to walk home from school?
A Yale professor, who spoke of teaching the -ISMS (racism, ageism, sexism), said that never did he have more dissension or hatefulness issuing from students than when he attempted to teach SPECIESISM. He believed the collective guilt of having already eaten meat for a lifetime and laughing at animals and never stopping to face the
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This is real…this is evil. This we CAN do something about. (from 2015)
Interesting – PETA has now issued an action alert for the State of Indiana. “Speak Out Against ‘Pig Wrestling’ in Indiana!” – http://www.peta.org/action/action-ale…(click link to let your voice be heard). Here is the text: “Pigs are highly sensitive animals who—just like our animal companions—are capable of great suffering and deserve respectful treatment. But during the month of
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So is the local running of the bulls still on? (from 2015)
So is the local running of the bulls still on? Whitley County – PLEASE CANCEL all future pig wrestling events. Disgusted that no city fathers or mothers have stepped up to condemn pig wrestling. Had just one done that, we would not be hosting such an atrocity. Again…for is it four years in a row
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Thanks to those who never wavered for a second and never will — how impressive you are.
This pig wrestling escapade was truly the oddest experience of my lifetime. I shall never be the same, and I do not even know what to think. Totally exhausted beyond measure. Grateful for those who came through for another species and gladly overwhelmed by the unqualified support from so many. Disillusioned with the status quo…speechless
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And this is just one small town.
I highly recommend you read this important article – I’ve been saying this for quite a while now … How China purchased a prime cut of America’s pork industry Indiana scrambling like the devil to become the pork king of the United States through such transactions – just what I feared is going to come
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Can we all be more like Jennifer Lawrence … and the Pope? Please?
Jennifer Lawrence: Kim Davis ‘makes me embarrassed to be from Kentucky’ Oh, Jennifer, I know the feeling. And good for you for speaking up! Likewise, I am embarrassed to hail from a state (Indiana) which sanctions the slaughter of deer in 14 state parks during the month of “Thanksgiving” to preserve some flowers. Annually. Nothing
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Thanksgiving request: Thinking about somebody outside ourselves
Share, share, share and care, care, care, and stop eating animals? May your days be merry and bright IF you care about all species every second! Let’s get shelter animals homes and quit breeding farm animals and stop teaching children to kill – and terrorism can get nipped in the bud. Dammit…it is the TRUTH!
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From ants to rhinoceroses
I am not into genealogy…tired of living in the past! Living in the present with an eye toward the future is the best kind of New Year’s resolution…so I resolve to do so! Wish me luck! We can only make this world a better place by starting now…no regrets, just plenty of activism directed toward
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when we start only hearing the sounds of our own voices…the animals lose again
”Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.”~ Carl Sandburg To be sure, it is fabulous to attempt to be a voice for other species who do not speak the rather strange language of our human species … However, when we start only hearing the sounds
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Soldier on, folks! Soldier on! #Indiana’s “Canned Hunting” Bill. 2016.
From Marian Patience Harvey: “FENCED HUNTING PASSED INDIANA SENATE (Senate Bill 109). Please call Governor Pence at 317-232-4567, and ask him to VETO this Bill! Includes Deer, Sheep and Goats. Ask for an ENFORCED BAN!!! Just heard that it passed Senate on NPR…..please call…..once these facilities are legalized, Deer become livestock…and Big Ag wins again.” While
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My questions to politicians!
The answer to worldwide peace and inclusion of all lives as precious? Attention paid to all species great and small…animal welfare never addressed by office-seekers…why? So many of us care about reverence for and acceptance of the animal kingdom…no more factory farming, vegetarianism encouraged, domestic pets spayed/neutered, cessation of animal breeding to satisfy carnivorous consumption,
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Retrospection can hurt like hell sometimes.
Wondering WHY during all of these jamborees of politicians flooding our TV screens…and jabberjawing media chatterbugs interrupting one another…that NOBODY mentions the importance of the animal kingdom. That is when true peace would start. That is when all violence could end. All LIFE matters. Humans are just another species…a species who should know better than
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Stop the analysis, we want to get off!
Oh, my…wolves and mountain lions, and polar bears and sad elections…oh, my. Thanks for reading! Shame on Indiana again. Even North Carolina started the long ride toward becoming sensible and civilized. Tarheels voted for their Democratic candidate for governor. That’s a start. And Indiana’s “wildlife harvesting”… “amendment” was positioned over to left hand side of our Hoosier
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For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?
If we truly care about CAFOs and slaughterhouses located by three houses and, say, a Dollar General store or lake cottages and country clubs and ball-playing fields, we need to speak out for those animals to be confined and treated like merchandise and factory products and bred in droves only to be butchered for unwise and unhealthy
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The sanctity of life and kindness somehow got lost
Dammit? How about checking with actual farm animals about the concept of “factory farms”… Take a poll of those sentient beings purposely, frenetically bred only to become involved in such a hellish situation? “Agri-industry” – such a tragic, manufactured term. Zoning and landscaping and pure water and air are the only concerns ever addressed –
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Pig wrestling, anyone? No, we will opt out
In spite of reading three glowing articles in our local newspaper this week, so far, emphasizing the joys of pig wrestling, we decided not to wrestle pigs in the mud on July 16 in Whitley County no matter how fun and wholesome that event may be for spectators (children, too?) Even though, evidently, conveniently provided
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please reTHINK?
Open Letter: REGARDING THE DEER CULLING… REGARDING THE DEER CULLING SCHEDULED FOR NOV. 13, 14, 26 and 27, maligning our state’s parks’ system (read the story by clicking here): This truly needs to be stopped. We do believe fewer “state parks” are participating in this “operation” this year–we did our best last “season” to protest.
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Remember that this Earth …
I am extremely disappointed that the votes of a large and burgeoning portion of Rep. Marlin Stutzman’s constituency do not matter to him. His advocacy for deregulation of the farm “industry” is revelatory of self-interest and the resultant desire to please only a certain segment of voters in order to assure his election to office.
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Dear Congressperson
I oppose H.R. 4089: Sportsmen’s Heritage Act of 2012 because…hunting is unquestionably profit-making violence…over-reproduction of wild-life (not to mention farm “life”) is promoted by DNR agencies to keep the money flowing…400 million bucks (pardon the pun) generated annually in our state and 2300 jobs for relatives…all due to “hunting” which is rationalized every which way
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OH, DEAR!
Hosea 2:18 : “And in that day I will make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: And I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to
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Here I Do Be…
HERE I DO BE POSTING THESE SWEET SOULS ASKING THAT ALL WHO CAN MIGHT HELP WITH GOALS– STOP THE DEATHS AND RELEASE THESE ANGELS ALL! CLICK “SHARE”, FOSTER, E-MAIL, ADOPT OR CALL! …JOIN US DAILY, IF FOR EVEN ONE SEC! LET’S DO WHAT WE CAN? WHY NOT? WHAT THE HECK? THANKS FOR CARING, SHARING AND
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ah, a poem by me…sans copyright.…how nice
Open up your heart…begin to understand…learn acceptance today. 56 billion sentient beings, consumed yearly, alive must stay. 6-9 million domesticated souls wiped from earth’s face each year. Blame Gods, Nature, weaponry, wars? Truthfully, ’tis ourselves we must fear. (Me.)
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A Poem to Share…
a poem: some facebookers do not like this sweet “share”. well, bite me cuz i don’t really much care! when PUSH comes to LOVE, why it’s good to SHOVE sweet faces onto monitors all … so save lives by making a cell call.
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SETTING OURSELVES APART
What have I read via local news sources this past week? “Harvesting” deer even though those animals may harbor “bovine tuberculosis”? “Locally grown meat” is best? (I kid you not.) Legislating “social” issues? “Wars” have assured us our freedoms? Mistrust and fear and contentiousness should rule our foreign policies? Program our children to become suspicious, judgmental, and damagingly
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Climbing Jacob’s Letter — whoa there now!
To Dear Jacob from Dear Susie: (neither of us shooting the messenger I hope.) Your beautiful name filled with Biblical allusions running the gamut from purchase of brother Esau’s birthright to synonymy with ” Israel “? Well, be advised that “Susie” Is Hebrew-originated also. Thus, our Judeo-names, selected by our parents, place us squarely upon
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Susie, In a Sense…a Broad!
As I consider myself nothing nor nobody more than Peter Sellers in Being There or at my liveliest as Inspector Clousseau, it is difficult to make “Susie” sound interesting? I am proudest of being the Mother of Roy, whom I consider the person I would most wish to be. I grew up in a very
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MARIANNE WILLIAMSON, MOVE OVER!
An Op-Ed Rhyming Essay and Collection of Scattered Random Thoughts, Questions, & Current Events for Our Time “A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.” ~ David Brinkley Tweeting a bloggy podcast thingie now, and my muted show follows for all the
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INTUITION AND INSTINCTS AND BUMBLE BEES! OH, MY!
“What happens at Georgetown Prep stays at Georgetown Prep!” ~ current Supreme Court nominee As I lounged sleepily on a lawn chair three summer seasons past, I devoured a ROLLING STONE article about this blondish fellow named Donald Trump, a guy presently stacked in my musty basement, he being featured on umpteen PEOPLE Magazine covers highlighting zippy, scandal-hinting essays
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“THE YEARS TEACH MUCH THE DAYS NEVER KNOW.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Edgar Allan Poe has nothing on me. My severe depression I could maybe downgrade to but a “funk”; however just as the lead singer with Heavy Metal “Iron Maiden” recently penned a new book from the depths of despair forgoing the hunt and peck system and instead scrawling upon yellow legal pads, I likewise someday
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PET PEEVISHNESS…PLUS THE REDEEMING GLORIES OF THE CAT IN THE BOX
“I’d be a terrible superhero. I’d see the signal calling in the sky from home and be like, ‘I literally just sat down.’ ” Credit: darling fellow blogger Beth Kennedy! People who bore us all with their pet peeves? THOSE very dopes are MY pet peeves. Granted that life overflows with inconveniences, annoying humans, political shenanigans,
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WAIT! PRIOR TO TOSSING ME INTO A WEATHERED HATBOX…READ ME FIRST?
“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.” ~ Henry David Thoreau “Cousin, we should earnestly, nobly meet the highest expectations of our illegitimate great great great great grandfather President
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TRUTH IS STRANGER THAN FICTION – AN ODD ODYSSEY
(As always, click on the hyperlinked words for an audiovisual surprise!) “The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.” ~ Andy Rooney NOT EVERYONE APPROVES OF A STYLE OF WRITING REFERRED TO AS POETRY, BUT “LISTEN MY CHILDREN AND YE SHALL HEAR” — PRE WINTER — A SUMMERTIME REVERIE. TREACHEROUS ROADTRIPS TRAVERSING
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UPTON SINCLAIR, LET’S RAKE MUCK ONE FINAL TIME – To Restore Biodiversity
Thankfully, an increasingly dwindling number of Homo sapiens seem to be revealing these days that they remain unfathomably ignorant, foolishly stubborn and downright awful about an appropriately changing world. Well, hoo-ray for diminishing stats and fewer and fewer dim bulbs! Vacuous apathetic dead-heads and sniggering bullies certainly sense that they are on the losing end
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THE SECRET OF CHANGE…
“Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.” ~ Abraham Lincoln And so the story goes: as a toddler, I left the party in the living room as I stumbled past all of the clinking cocktail glasses, above my determined gaze, and
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Farewell to meat cleavers!
“Those who describe animals as not having any thoughts or feelings come closer to that description than the animals they are trying to describe.” ~ Edward Alberola I am reincarnated! Originally, I existed as a “Do(e), a deer…a female deer” living a frightened life of skittishness and mind-numbing shyness. Lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II placed me
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THIS IS THE LIFE: BLOGS & DOGS!
Attorney and former neighbor Earl Tison, whom I desired to adopt the moment I met him, exclaimed frequently, “Susie, if anybody should start a blog, it would be you!” Computer-less at that particular time, I had no concept of precisely what he might be suggesting, as a consequence of myriad moon-light porch chats at his
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Carol Baker, Michael Martone, Tari Joyce, Linda Chapman, and a ‘Non-Fiction’ Panel-List
This review on Amazon from writer, pundit, and radio personality Carol Baker means the world to a small-town “girl” named Susie: “The newest addition to my Kindle by friend and soul sister, Susie Sexton. As a writer, I appreciate Susie’s ability to just… think out loud on paper. ♥ “As a weekly columnist, writing on
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A Love Story…starring Jack and Zelda
“Some people don’t understand why we help animals in need. We don’t understand why they wonder.” – Lucky Dog Rescue Blog “Where do I begin to tell the story of how great a love can be?” Well, now… that assignment is easy as pie! Most folks who rrrreally know and understand me realize that I
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Life Lessons from Best Friends
(“What important life lesson have you learned from your companion animal(s)?”) How do fortunate, appreciative Homo sapiens properly capture, in mere words, the loyalty, joie de vivre, serenity and adaptability and acceptance as well as general all-around heaven that “pets” demonstrate and provide? Aside from daily moment to moment co-bonding in both enjoyment and endurance
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How Many Roads Must a Person Walk Down?
“How many times can a man turn his head and pretend that he just doesn’t see? The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind. The answer is blowing in the wind…” ~ B. Dylan Slap. Spank. WAAAAAAH. Boy? Girl? Free will? Predetermined fate? Conform? Challenge the status quo? Live until you die? Hide yourself
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Facing Up to a Missing Link … and My Resultant Veganism
(restricted audiences only) “We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.” ~ Richard Dawkins Bopped on the bean with a Rosetta Stone, I submit my last will and testament. My funeral may not draw crowds, but the tarring, feathering, drawing and quartering on our courthouse lawn may
Misunderstood Gargoyles and Overrated Angels 