Album: Animals

     Album:Animals
Koguma
our little Teddy Bear
18 folders , 82 images
Reverend Turbo
13 folders , 26 images
Koguma and Turbo
are friends
18 folders , 81 images
Pope Whiskers the Third and Judge PawPants
2 folders , 353 images
Kodi
13 folders , 18 images
Kodi and Mr Peterson
10 images
Mr Peterson
20 folders , 40 images
Cinder
13 images
Amoebae
23 folders , 3 images
Other Animals
8 folders , 2 images
Two generations of black cats.
Mr. Peterson and Turbo ( comments)
xkcd 262 Captions-Cats
( comments)

Dharma
by Billy Collins

The way the dog trots out the front door
every morning
without a hat or an umbrella,
without any money
or the keys to her doghouse
never fails to fill the saucer of my heart
with milky admiration.

Who provides a finer example
of a life without encumbrance
Thoreau in his curtainless hut
with a single plate, a single spoon?
Gandhi with his staff and his holy diapers?

Off she goes into the material world
with nothing but her brown coat
and her modest blue collar,
following only her wet nose,
the twin portals of her steady breathing,
followed only by the plume of her tail.

If only she did not shove the cat aside
every morning
and eat all his food
what a model of self-containment she
would be,
what a paragon of earthly detachment.
If only she were not so eager
for a rub behind the ears,
so acrobatic in her welcomes,
if only I were not her god.

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