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Snickers Talks With God
Listen to Snickers. He makes a great deal of sense, probably more than any human!
Snickers goes “Stream of Consciousness” with God. His time with us is growing short as at almost 15 years old, his body is starting to fail him. Some good questions/observations the ol’ boy brings up.
Dear God: It’s me, Snickers.
- Is it on purpose that our names are spelled the same, only in reverse? (God – Dog)
- Why do humans smell the flowers, but seldom, if ever, smell one another?
- When we get to Heaven, can we sit on your couch? Or will it be the same old story?
- Why are there cars named after the jaguar, the cougar, the mustang, the colt, the stingray, and the rabbit, but not ONE named for a dog? How often do you see a cougar riding around? We love a nice car ride! Would it be so hard to rename the ‘Chrysler Eagle’ the ‘Chrysler Beagle’?
- If a dog barks his head off in the forest and no human hears him, is he still…
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A reflection on Dementia
“It’s just moments now Dad, everything.
Just moments now, they don’t join up!”
“What don’t?”
“My memories. My life doesn’t join up. Can’t remember.”
“Someone else will remember. Someone will remember for you.”
From the final episode of Wallander
The Masque of Anarchy
Today is National Poetry Day in the UK, with a theme of Freedom.
I’d like to offer The Masque of Anarchy as a token, because Mahatma Ghandi would often quote Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem to vast audiences during the campaign for a free India.
Synopsis
Shelley begins his poem, written on the occasion of the Peterloo massacre, Manchester 1819, with the powerful images of the unjust forms of authority of his time, “God, and King, and Law” – and then imagines the stirrings of a radically new form of social action: “Let a great assembly be, of the fearless, of the free”. The crowd at this gathering is met by armed soldiers, but the protesters do not raise an arm against their assailants:
“Stand ye calm and resolute,
Like a forest close and mute,
With folded arms and looks which are
Weapons of unvanquished war.
And if then the tyrants dare,
Let them ride among you there;
Slash, and stab, and maim and hew;
What they like, that let them do.
With folded arms and steady eyes,
And little fear, and less surprise,
Look upon them as they slay,
Till their rage has died away:
Then they will return with shame,
To the place from which they came,
And the blood thus shed will speak
In hot blushes on their cheek:
Rise, like lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number!
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you:
Ye are many—they are few!”
The last stanza has been widely used by Jeremy Corbyn, Leader of the UK Labour Party, most notably to the 120,000 audience at the Glastonbury Festival this year.
information thanks to Wikipedia
Twittering Tale #51 – 26 September 2017
It’s time again for Kat Myrman’s wonderful challenge to tax our creative souls. Just take her photo prompt and write a story, inspired by it, in 140 characters or fewer.
Here is this week’s prompt and my contribution. Check out all the fabulous entries here.
Each year he offered the first of the crop to his darling wife.
This year she was not there to receive it.
Gone.
The apple of his eye forever!
(140 characters)
Twittering Tale #50 – 19 September 2017
It’s time again for Kat Myrman’s wonderful challenge to tax our creative souls. Just take her photo prompt and write a story, inspired by it, in 140 characters or fewer.
Here is this week’s prompt and my contribution. Check out all the fabulous entries here.
Just around the corner, Mum!
When they got there, the giant’s body had disappeared.
Look Mum, look. You can see the impression on the ground!
(139 characters)
Really?
I just have to reblog this because it is pure common sense. We seem to be lacking this “common” sense in all aspects of life now. Isn’t it about time that we started getting real again?
Here is a video by Mike The Cop, who lives and works somewhere in Michigan. He’s a funny, yet serious guy and his videos are designed to explain aspects of police work to the public.
In the video below, he asks questions regarding common sense and the willingness to call out foolishness for being what it is?
I especially appreciate his comment at 4:55. I think dad was right when as a police chief, he steered me away from following him in his career. No one ever shot at me on the fire engine.
Here’s Mike the Cop:
Along the way
This is an absolute gem of a haiku, and a brilliant template for living well.
on our way to death ~ we should play and laugh and sing ~ make each moment count
© Lize Bard
@ Haiku out of Africa
