My dogs, my life, how they are entwined (and how things change): LOOK WHAT ANNIE DID!!!

Sunday, November 11, 2007

LOOK WHAT ANNIE DID!!!

It's raining outside today so Annie pee'd in the laundry room because she does not like getting her paws wet outside and we think she made SOME ART!! It's a Basset Hound!!

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Anonymous said...: I'm pretty impressed with the artwork. hey there!! hope you guys are doing well. I love this site. hope you have a nice veterans day. I'll call you soon,,
all my love, Jodi; November 12, 2007 at 3:50 AM

Dharma

by Billy Collins

The way the dog trots out the front door
every morning
without a hat or an umbrella,
without any money
or the keys to her dog house
never fails to fill the saucer of my heart
with milky admiration.

Who provides a finer example
of a life without encumbrance—
Thoreau in his curtainless hut
with a single plate, a single spoon?
Ghandi with his staff and his holy diapers?

Off she goes into the material world
with nothing but her brown coat
and her modest blue collar,
following only her wet nose,
the twin portals of her steady breathing,
followed only by the plume of her tail.

If only she did not shove the cat aside
every morning
and eat all his food
what a model of self-containment she would be,
what a paragon of earthly detachment.
If only she were not so eager
for a rub behind the ears,
so acrobatic in her welcomes,
if only I were not her god.

My dogs, my life, how they are entwined (and how things change)

Sunday, November 11, 2007

LOOK WHAT ANNIE DID!!!

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