Me and my sweet Chocolate Lab, Lacey

[elias49]

I was just showing off to Lacey...
I was kneeling in front of my woodstove, working up a fire, and she was laying nearby.
And I had one of those cheap butane lighters and as I listened to Van Morrison sing Independence Day on the PC stereo I began to toss the lighter gently into the air in front of me - oh between 1 and 2' into the air with a 720 degree flip, catching it well each time (4 or 5 tosses without a miss)
and I looked over at her and her ears were in the 'alert' position - up and forward - watching something she'll never be able to do because she's just a dog.
Maybe she can run faster than me (well, there's no 'maybe' to it)
she can see better in the dark
can find her way home with her nose
tolerate conditions that would make me want to cry
but she'll never toss a BIC in the air
and catch it light and flat in her palm.

Anyway, there I was, lighting the woodstove
playing catch
wondering about Egypt and listening to Van
and wondering what it would be like
to be as fearless as a dog.

[Suich]

1. Nice.

:)

[Bertha Venation]

3. + 1

:)

[KT2000]

2. fearless

that is what impressed me about the Egyptians demonstrating.
Americans wouldn't do that.

[Chan790]

6. Oh I think it is coming...but not soon.

Some Egyptian journalist said it yesterday, that the most interesting thing about it was that it was a sudden break-out of post-partisanism.

People who could never be in the same room (youth of the liberal intelligentsia, Muslim Brotherhood (very anti-western Islamicists), westernized middle-class people, the mercantile class & aged pro-democratic revolutionaries of the last Egyptian revolution(the one that brought Mubarak to power after the death of Anwar Sadat)) as recently as last week were now marching in the streets holding hands screaming for the end of the Mubarak regime together and collaborating resistance and protests.

The question is how bad do things have to get before we're marching in the streets with the teabaggers, religious fundamentalists, college students, small business owners and disaffected centrists demanding the total dissolution of our government? A lot worse than they are.

[KT2000]

7. Did not know that

so that is encouraging in a strange way.

[WinkyDink]

4. And as loving.

[BrklynLiberal]

5. +1 ..So able to live in the moment....

even without opposable thumbs.