Plotting

I'm a star. (psst! Are they looking?)

Yeah, I think so.

It's about time we got on here. Our public demands us.

Oh, puppy, you're such a ham.

What?! I'm a dog! Ham is food!

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Hey. We gotta do something.

What do you mean?

Mom is plotting.

Oh, she's sending you to the pound?

Hey! *whine* Why do you gotta go sayin' that stuff?

Okay, I'm sorry. I love you, puppy.

I'm tryin' to save your life, ya' know.

What are you talking about now?

Mom wants to get a Dyson. She's trying to figure out how to do it.

What's a Dyson?

It's a vacuum cleaner - you know, like the dog eating machine we killed.

Ohhhh...

Yeah, and it doesn't get clogged! You know what that means, don't you?

That Mom will have more time to play with us?

No. If the thing sucks up a DOG it won't get clogged!

Oh, you're being so dramatic.

I am not! .... Hey, you wanna see something?

What?

I can jump from this chair, over the couch and spin in the air so I land facing the other way. Wanna see?

Naw. I'm still working on learning to open the fridge.

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Rats!

Wake up! Wake up!

Oh, puppy, what's going on now? I was having a good dream about chasing a squirrel. I almost had him until you started barking at me.

We have.... we have *gasp*.... RATS!

What?!

Rats! We have 'em. And I think Mom's trying to adopt 'em!

No way. Mom wouldn't adopt rats. ..... What kind of rats?

I don't know, but she fed them OUR dog food!

She did not!

She did! She dumped the dog food on the floor at the front door where we can't get at it.

Puppy, stop making up stories.

I'm not! I saw her. She was at the front door. She started to put her shoes on, then she said "oh, rats" and dumped the dog food out of her shoe onto the floor.

just a thought

I was thinking about a lot of things this morning (I know, I know... so what else is new...)

I thought this:

Sometimes words get in the way of meaning.


.... just a simple thought....

Some Quotes

I haven't had enough spare time to do much personal reading, so am no further ahead with Nietzsche.

One of the things that struck me, though, is that his explanation of the roles and workings of the Self, the Ego, the road to the Superman can easily be seen as analogous to the relationships between God, Man, Christ, and the road to God. Nietzsche's religious training comes through over and over again.

I find it fascinating to read a book and try to get into the head of the author to see things not only the way he sees them, but also from where he starts to see anything at all.

Anyway, I thought I'd share some quotes from this book that I like:

"Great star! What would your happiness be if you had not those for whom you shine!"

"One must be a sea to receive a polluted river and not be defiled."

"I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish."

and I really like this one a lot:

"You say 'I' and you are proud of this word. But greater than this - although you will not believe in it - is your body and its great intelligence, which does not say 'I' but performs 'I'."



What conversations could be had around any one of these!

Supreme Wisdom

I'm no psalmist or anything... just thinking stuff. And this is what came out of me this morning.



Oh, God! You are so Holy!

You are the Holiest of the Holy!

I fall to my knees and humble myself before You.

I cover my head and my eyes

As the eyes of my heart look up toward You!

Thank You, God!

Thank You, Beautiful One!

Thank You, Precious Lamb!



Your wisdom is supreme.

You warn of false prophets and philosophers,

Then put them in my path.

You warn of the roaring lion,

Then let him come to my door.

Thank You, Lord.

Thank You for Your Supreme Wisdom.

Thank You that You are always with me!



You tell me to stalk and hunt

Even as I am stalked and hunted.

Thank You, Glorious God.

Thank You for Your Supreme Wisdom.



You tell me to stand

And the wind blows me down.

Thank You, God.

Thank You for Your Supreme Wisdom!



It is You I seek, Lord;

It is Your Will that I yearn for.

In The Arena

The following is a speech given by President Theodore Roosevelt. He delivered it at the University of Paris at Sorbonne Paris, France on April 23 1910:

In The Arena

In the battle of life it is not the critic who counts;
not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled,
or where the doer of a deed could have done better.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena
Whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood
who strives valiantly
who errs and comes short again and again,
because there is no effort without error and shortcoming;
who does actually strive to do the deeds;
who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions,
spends himself in a worthy cause;

who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement;
and who, at the worst, if he fails,
at least fails while daring greatly,
so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls
who have tasted neither victory nor defeat.

Run For Your Life!

Run! Run for your life!

What?! What?!

Don't worry, I'll get it!

Okay! I see it! I'll help you!

woof woof grrrr ooowwww! grrr woof arf arf woof I GOT IT! arf arf OKAY, I'LL GET THE OTHER END! woof woof THAT'S RIGHT! woof KILL IT! YEAH! woof IT WON'T GET AWAY THIS TIME! grrr grrr arrgh arf arf ooooowwwwwwww! *pant* *pant* *pant*

silence....

Is it dead?

Yeah, I think so.

Bite it again, just to make sure.

Okay.... Yep. It's dead.




















Whew! I saved us.

You?! What? I saved us, too!

No you didn't. I bit it more than you.

But I saved us too.

Now don't go pretending to be the big hero of the house. I did it, not you.

Shh! What's that?

Mom's home.

(Mom sees the vacuum and says "Nooooo!")

I didn't bite it! I didn't do it!

What?! Liar! You did so!

No, you did it.

I did not, you did!

You bit it more!

Hey! You know what? Mom knows a forensic odontologist, so you're in trouble.

What are you talking about?

He can check and prove that the bite marks came from YOU!

But you bit it, too!

Yeah, well you bit it more and it will be your bite marks that show up.

Yeah, well it doesn't matter 'cause she loves me anyway.

I was here in this house first, you know. Mom loves me.

Yeah, but she loves me more.

No she doesn't.

Why do you always have to go sayin' stuff like that?

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Hey, do you think we can go on the Ark tomorrow?

We'd have to promise not to kill any vacuums on the ark.

Noah didn't have vacuums on the ark.

It's not Noah's ark, silly. It's a different one.

Oh. .... Are you tellin' me it's gonna rain?

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