More and more in our world I think about listening. All around me, I heard rigid and dogmatic people spouting absolute truths, often in anger and perpetual outrage. You must be on the left. Or on the right, as if there are only two ways to think about life in our world. In the animals world, this polarized sense of truth is epidemic. One way of getting a dog. One way of training a dog. I see that my own ideas of training come from a conscious and unconscious rejection of dogma and theory. I want my own way, my own left, my own right. People seem drawn to labels, yet I reject labels. They are prone to outrage and argument, when I am less certain all the time of what is absolutely right and absolutely wrong. I worked hard on fear and anger, and will continue to do so. I will work hard on learning to listen, even if it sometimes seems that nobody can hear.