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Laugh and Love your Dog

I found a rugged quartz crystal in our gardenOne day, I took Alphia Lee for a walk in
yesterday and brought it to my writing table,Golden Gate park. A squirrel distracted her
to gaze at its beauty and reveal its mysteryfrom the beloved stick, and damn it if she
as  I write, like gazing into a crystal ball.didn't run in front of a fast moving car. She
crawled  back  to  the  side  of  the  road.
The five crystals in the center of it are
perfect, in their own wild way, like the daysI remember crying and kneeling beside her,
I spent in total conflict with myself, withgoing over her body, getting a sense of how
society  and  the  world.badly she was hurt. A car pulled over and a
young man asked to take me where ever I
It brings to mind one of my favorite Alphiawished  to  go.
stories, my golden German Shepard Collie of
the 1960's, the pre-Funk commune years,He had an old blanket and we carefully laid
occurring several months after the communalher  on  it.
caravan  arrived  in  San  Francisco.
Then he drove Alphia and me to the big
We found our large Victorian house afterrambling Victorian house that was our
several weeks of illegal camping around thetemporary  abode.
jagged Pacific shore hideaways and in the
many untamed parks for which the city isWe prepared a bed for her with old blankets
famous.and  rags.
The caravan people had remained disgruntledShe'd look at us with a forlorn Muki eye, the
in spite of the constant dog/God guidancedog who joined me 28 years later to show me
surrounding  us.true  love.
A chasm developed between those who wanted toThat look inspired me to slip into the meat
join the ranks of the work-a-day world, anddepartment of a local Safeway, and steal one
the four of us who went on to establish thesteak  a  day  for  her,  and  for  her only.
Funky Farm community and knew that going to
work was antithetical to living creatively byThen we'd sit with her for hours, stroking
the  seat  of  our  pants.her neck and body and encouraging her to come
back  to  us.
I had come to a place within myself where I
needed to live outside of the mainstream,The long intimate times we spent with her
established 9-5 ho-hum I'm beaten down, killwere patient and happy. We did not
me now style of existence I imagined mydesperately plead with her to live rather
father ascribing to for his thirty-fivethan die. Rather, we coaxed her gently,
working years, at the same place, doing theshowing her our love, and gave her the great
same job, everyday. I'd think of anoption of living with a handful of rogues
exhilarating  alternative,  bet  on  that.completely  alienated  from  society.
My life as a rip off artist now began inShe opted to spend a few more years with us
earnest.in our experiment of living--dangerously.



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