Woof @ MindSay

1300, 1200, 1400, 2000....entries. However many it is...do you ever feel like you've said enough? What was my 'secret' from my past blog entry? Did I have one? Who cares? (not me).

I suppose it comes to a point where real-world social contacts become paramount to spouting to online communities that can pretend to be whoever they want to be. Case in point - simply compassion and humanity....

I was fishing a month ago...I saw an elderly man coming out of the woods with some fish. I turned around, continued to fish, then looked back and minute later and didn't see him. I thought about it for a second then wondered if he had somehow slipped by me. Something made me concerned, so I stopped and walked where I saw him last, and sure enough, he was face down in the mud, having fallen over a tree. I ran to help him up, somehow terribly panged by that feeling of watching someone in such a helpless state. Thoughts ran through my mind, knowing that this old man was once like me, able to bound over fallen trees, slinking through the woods, fishing on precarious outcroppings of rock...

In short, I think I saw myself in this old man, years from now...

If I fall in 50 years, will there be anyone there to help me up?

He thanked me as he plodded along, back to his car. For a moment I wondered who he was, what he believed, who he had at home...

In real life you don't immediately start your first or second introduction to a person with "This is who I am, and this is what I believe, and all other people who believe choice B are idiots". You have introductions, chance encounters, getting to know time, becoming familiar with who that individual is as a person, coming to enjoy their company, accepting their differences from your own.

Online, we forgo with all of that. I'm sure there are many of you out there who I would like and you would like me if we had a chance encounter on the street some random day. Sometimes internet mouthpieces are too loud...

So I wonder now, what did that old man believe in? Was he a devout evangelical who thought Obama was a Muslim and not fit to lead this county? Perhaps. But he was grateful to me, and I to him, even though I don't know him.

Now I know why sometimes saying less is more.

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I know now why this project is so hard to finish. It's killing me, this writing about dogs. I love dogs. I don't have one and I love them and I don't have one but I love them and it's killing me. I want one so badly.

But then I think-

time?
money?
patience?

None of these things I can afford or have extra of right now. I'm simply working too much. Not fair for the doggy. Not fair at all.

Beans!!!

The Ruckus may be on hiatus, but that doesn't mean that the folks at WTF can't steal borrow that unique podcast's format for a night, right?  Right.  The Ruckus does recipes so we shall do a recipe.

Tonight, the WTF Preshow is a recipe for a tasty selection entitled, Woof!  The titles of all of the songs for tonight's preshow have something to do with dogs.  Puppies, if you will.

Tune in tonight around 8:40 PM CDT to listen to Woof!  Then stick around until 9 PM CDT to hear the WTF crew chat, talk, and joke about whatever's on our minds.


P.S.  Don't forget to answer Questions of the Week.

The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue. ----- Harry Falk

Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. ----- Ann Landers

If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. ----- Will Rogers

There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.
----- Ben Williams

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.

------Josh Billings

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person. ----- Andy
Rooney

We give dogs time we can spare, space we can spare, and love we can spare. And in return, dogs give us their all. It's the best deal man has ever made.

----- M. Acklam

A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down. ----- Robert Benchley

Anybody who doesn't know what soap tastes like never washed a dog.
----- Franklin P. Jones

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons. ----- JamesThurber

If your dog is fat you aren't getting enough exercise. ----- Unknown

 

My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to $3.00 a can.That's $21.00 in dog money. ----- Joe Weinstein

Ever consider what our dogs must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul -- chicken, pork,half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth! -----Anne Tyler

Speak softly and own a Great Dane. ----- Tom Cash

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
----- Mark Twain

You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you a look that says, "Wow, you're right! I never would've thought of that!"----- Dave Barry

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole. ----- RogerCaras

If you think dogs can't count, try putting three dog biscuits in yourpocket and then giving Fido only two of them. ----- Phil Pastoret

My goal in life is to be as good a person as my dog already thinks I am. ----- Unknown

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