Happenings of the day …

Day 352

I think Oscar has the Big D.

Yep … just what you’re thinking … DEMENTIA!

I am thinking he’s lost his sense of smell or eyesight or  brain power as I put his food down the other day and he was looking at me with a face that said, Where is it? and he was standing in the bowl. I’ve also found him sitting in the kitchen looking at the corner … as if in a self-imposed “time out”.

I think he’s losing it. The geriatric fur factory just got a bit more interesting.

Dori fell down the stairs tonight. At 13.5 years (or nearly 95 in people years) falling down a flight of stairs is never a good thing. She seems fine though it sounded like a herd of elephants were going down the steps. From what I can tell she tucked her spindly little pug legs and her round little body into a ball and rolled down them – landing at the bottom a bit shaken but no worse for wear.

I gave the dogs green beans with dinner. Let’s  just say I’m paying for it dearly now. Where is that air freshener???

Those were the happenings of my day. But if I looked outside my little circle of life I’d realize that today was the public inauguration of President Barack Obama. He was sworn in for his second term of office. 

And instead of talking about that … I’m commenting on dog gas. 

Seriously, where is my common decency?

Today was Martin Luther King Jr. Day. I should be commenting on his life as well … and yet I’m wondering why I fed green beans to dogs in the first place.

And as I’m thinking that I should be more on top of the happenings of the day I’m thinking about green beans and how I will never to move to Siberia … as the Siberian Express has blown into town and brought with it the lowest temps this region has seen in years. And aside from being brutally cold it has given me the strange desire to go out and lick a lamp pole.

It is these things that I am thinking about instead of the happenings of the day. Which is … too bad.

I should be saying I was so afraid President Obama wouldn’t make it through his first term. I was so afraid idiots had other “plans” for him … would compromise our country and deny him his office and life. I’m glad he’s safe. I’m glad he’s where he is. And it did my heart good to see he and the First Lady dancing and sharing a kiss on this, another historic night.

I can only think that somewhere in Heaven Martin Luther King Jr. is hosting the biggest party ever! He had a dream … and what a reality it came to be. Can you just imagine?

Which makes me think of John Lennon’s song “Imagine”. Imagine all the people … living life in peace.

I know there are people who don’t understand or agree with equality. Who deny it with every fiber of their being. Who resist it. Who stop it whenever possible. And there are those that wage war and make peace an impossibility. It makes me angry and saddened that there are such people and views. Views which turn into bad actions … which turn into tragic deeds and upheavals and pain and the loss of so many. 

I find people like that cowards. Unlike those who try to make change for the betterment of others when they know there is such anger or hatred or ill-will against them or their ideals. The courage they show is amazing to me. I’m sure some see it differently … but I see it as amazing.

On a night like tonight – when there are so many reasons to be aware of the happenings of the day – I should be thinking about these things … instead of cat dementia,  the Siberian Express and dog gas.

 

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