Click images for desktop size: "Growth Beyind reason" by Zipangu Been doing too much. No, just enough to get it all done.

Feeling pretty rotten but I've got most everything settled to some small satisfaction.

I took my puppy to her therapy dog 1st level trail. I was surprised she passed it. She is a surprising dog many times over.

Tomorrow she gets spayed. It needs to be done for her health and well being. When she gets spay I can afford her license. She'll begin seeing kids right before Christmas, then continue her training.

I love the little ball of fur.

While we were walking we passed a guy talking on the street. I listened as long as I could. He was saying something like this:

“There are many tragic and awesome tidings I could give you; it is my wish to only speak simply of that relationship with the universe which all men desire knowledge of - that out of this knowledge may rise the cathedrals of a humanity geared to out glory the stars. The key to this knowledge is - you already know the answer. I see it forming on your tongues. THe key to this knowledge is a love of all things.”
“To love all things is to understand all things; and that which is understood by any of us becomes a knowledge that is embedded in all of us; for when a single tree in the forest has reached a height greater than it's fellows isn't it then the truth to say that the height of the forest is not less than the most distant leaf on that tree.”
“To recognize truth it is only necessary to recognize each other; for no man has ever been born into this world with the necessity to lie about anything whatever. ”
“Who is he who dares speak of God now?”
“Who is he who tells me to kill my brother in His name?”
“Where is that one who says: We have declared war on the enemy?”
“For he is a liar and a murderer.”
“For the only enemy is war.”
“It exists in their peace.”
“It is war to allow the few to starve the many.”
“It is a war to allow the few to blind the many.”
“The power of this enemy is not in the few. It's power is in the many who fear, distrust and hate one another.”

Click images for desktop size: "In the Woods" by Mirani Everadus Pagano“Love is the kingdom”
“Love is the blinding light in this darkness.”
“You are saying to yourselves: Yes, what you say is the truth - but what are we to do? How is it in the least worthwhile that we, a handful in these stupified millions, should try to live by what we know to be right? Of what use would this be?”
“I can only tell you this: One who speaks the truth shall eventually and inevitably out sound the world; and one who lives the truth shall have a life in every man forever.”
“I ask you to love, not to hate. To live, not to die.”

I realized that it was me talking. I was lucky that the only one who could hear me was my puppy, and she doesn't care about my words, only that I pet her when she's sad, hold her when she's scared and feed her when she's hungry.
She listened to me patiently, then put her front feet on my chest and tried to lick my face. She went off and found a good stick and begged for me to chase her.
With that, despite the pain and the fatigue and the crabbiness, that made it a very good day indeed.