I would have rather stayed home and been lazy or maybe made some sweet potato rolls or took a nap or watched television, but the dogs were not settling so I stuffed them in the Jeep and headed to Hart Square. I took a few of Cooper – who has a decent stay while RedDawg (above) was tied. She screamed and carried on most of the time but patience won out. There’s no posing here – just a lie down with her mouth shut. This is a very quick edit.
I turned around and thought, she’s tied, let me see if I can get her to cooperate. It took time, but I did. She’ll be eight months old on January 5 and this is the first image I’ve taken of her with my camera. I have one other potential to edit and one of Cooper to work on.
I’ve been reading – for a very long time now, the Marginalian by Maria Popiva. It almost always gives me good food for thought – much of which I don’t act on, but I do think about it. I kept this from last night:
“To begin anything — a new practice, a new project, a new love — is to cast upon yourself a spell against stagnation. Beginnings are notation for the symphony of the possible in us. They ask us to break the pattern of our lives and reconfigure it afresh — something that can only be done with great courage and great tenderness, for no territory of life exposes both our power and our vulnerability more brightly than a beginning.”
~ ~ ~ ~ Irish poet and philosopher John O’Donohue (January 1, 1956–January 4, 2008)
I’ve surely been quite stagnant lately and if I hadn’t listened to the dogs – who did have a good time except for RedDawg when she was tied – I’d have continued being that way and made excuses.
Until later …
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