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Author: Hope Never Vanishes

  • oh goody, i get to clean up dog poo (again)

    oh goody, i get to clean up dog poo (again)

    man, this blows.  Lucy eats chicken skin and then gets the hershey squirts in the wee hours.  ugly.  somehow, i remember vaguely being awakened at 4:00 AM with grumbling, bumbling, and the faintest notion that i had heard her scratching and panting sometime before that – you know how it is when you hear noises and you are asleep – your brain does not exactly put things in the right sort order, so to speak.

    now i get to clean up the fun stuff.  good ol’ Dyson and his “ZORB” product which is just short of miraculous at being able to suck up the poo stains and the smell…

    poor lucy.  she gets some yogurt today.  good girl.  slack back on the chicken skin.

    Update to today. I really miss cleaning up after Lu. Eleven Years plus four months we had the joy of this wonderful girl. I don’t regret a moment of taking care of her. She was us. She took care of us. It was what we paid to have her be here. RIP Lu.

  • through the looking glass into the window and out again…

    through the looking glass into the window and out again…

    trying to figure things out, one feels like Alice at times.  whether this is Alice in Wonderland, or Alice in her restaurant, it just seems that one way or the other, we need people in our lives to make the picture complete.  we need color, laughter, and most importantly, love.

    if we don’t have those, we live the bare and scarce existence, bleak and dark.  but we discuss the abyss, that while the unknown is threatening, when the unknown is all you have to face, the mind moves to possibilities – and if you have a mind geared towards optimism, the abyss presents adventure and potential.  after all, when facing the abyss, and that is all you have, what do you have to lose with optimism and potential possibilities?

    hey – it’s better than the alternatives, yes?

    You bet it is!

  • the old site gone. dusted. new site is evolving.

    the old site gone. dusted. new site is evolving.

    metamorphosis where next?
    metamorphosis where next?

    memories of making the first site in 2005, nearly 9 years ago, bring me to realize how much things have changed – how much easier and more creative the access to create blogs and content with great tools has become.  gifts and treasures from the intelligence of humanity.  a contrast to some of the dark things that come out of the intelligence of humanity…  this site fully will intend to support the positive, the reflective, and argue for the well-worn path down the middle road of sanity and sensibility.