Everything Life Has Absolutely,
Positively Taught Me, Sort Of
Positively Taught Me, Sort Of
"I don't learn quick, but I learn good," a friend less eloquent than wise once told me. Like him, it's taken me a lifetime to get a few things straight in my head. But the lessons have stuck because they were learned the hard way, through painful repetition until the light bulb finally stayed on. And like my friend, I've come to believe that the wisdom of the old is truer than the wisdom of the young. Theirs, you see, relies on foresight; ours on hindsight, which is consistently more reliable. If I had to make the journey all over again, I'd base my critical decisions on experience rather than prescience. I think I'd get a lot more things right much sooner.
Living like a Dog: Not a Bad Thing
God must have been multitasking at the time. Or maybe Mrs. G called him to supper just as he was about to endow us with our distinguishing qualities, jarring his concentration at the defining moment of creation on the critical sixth day. Whatever the reason, I think dogs wound up with the characteristics and traits God had intended for us (Lord only knows whose qualities we got), which explains why dogs are everything people try to be, why they excel at life and we mess up so badly, so often.
Love Is Where You Find It
Right now you're either murmuring Yes! Yes! Yes! or making that circular motion with a forefinger in the vicinity of your temple. For there are dog-lovers and there are cat-lovers and there are those who consider the first two groups to be people who desperately need to get back on their medications.
Author: Lionel Fisher
