#NewThisDay Writing From My Photo Stream

The winter-fed brook

In another day or two of melt I will be wading through the brook on the trail. It’s filling up fast. A lovely rush in the ears. Everything is melt-wet. But the tennis court Frank and I shoveled yesterday has dried today. I am out in the mud quite a bit with Chip. He’s really integrating. My night on the couch with him in the crate beside me went well enough. He’s a very good boy. One more night on the couch for me, and I think he’ll really be ready to sleep a good long sleep in his crate. He doesn’t seem to be a barker or whiner. Not yet. He brings a fluffy hand and heartfull of joy to me. I led my craft webinar and Israeli group and took quite a bit of good care of Chip. But I also got my “me” walk which was wonderful. In the late afternoon Frank and I went to the river with Chip. He’s a pretty good hiker. I thought, at the river’s edge, how happy he will be to swim in the Charles just as Flash, Suzi and Charlie did. Labs love a river or any body of water. And water, we’ve got plenty of it right now. Melting and filling the groundwater. So I cannot help but put down here tonight, with bitter irony, this terrible headline from CNN today: “US strike likely hit a school in Iran due to outdated intelligence.” Yes, outdated intelligence indeed. There is so much injustice and horror in this strike on children I feel a lead weight in my belly to think of it. I have the luxury of being angry and going about the business of my day taking care of a puppy while there’s a war on far away from my safe home caused by the country I belong to. And all the intelligence of the manufacturers of this war have “outdated” intelligence. I must try and get a good night’s rest.

Chipper