It’s getting colder; the morning mist shrouds the farm and the sun peaks around 9:30 a.m. Soon, I’ll start my weekly Zoom meeting with readers of the blog, where we will try to personalize and humanize online communications and talk to one another.
The link is here; I admit blog readers to the Zoom Meeting at 9:55 a.m. EDT and close the meeting a few minutes after ten. There is no plan other than talking and listening. People can speak or hear; their choice. It’s a safe space:
The meeting runs from 45 minutes to an hour.
Join Zoom Meeting, 9:55 a.m.
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87822862552?pwd=V2U0SnNyejFJZlNNazZ1d3RLVUFSQT09
Meeting ID: 878 2286 2552
Passcode: 712821
This afternoon, an interesting Dog Support meeting is scheduled for late afternoon. This problem is that an affectionate dog can’t stop licking its owner, who loves him dearly but doesn’t know how to stop the behavior, which is worsening and unwanted.
The owner doesn’t want to hurt or punish the dog for being affectionate.
I’ve scheduled a Dog Support meeting to help a dog owner whose dog has cancer and wants to know when and if the dog should be euthanized and how one makes such an awful decision.
And another to help the owner of a small dog showing growing aggression toward other dogs.
I also agreed to help a family that wants to get a dog but wants to do it thoughtfully and with consideration. I’m happy to talk to the family em masse on Zoom.
I’m doing a lot of research for Dog Support and learning all the time.
If you need Dog Support, e-mail me for details at [email protected]. I charge $50 for 30 minutes.
Tomorrow, Maria and I go to Bishop Gibbons to help out and bring boxes of art supplies.
I hope to write about the school’s novel and successful program to help the students read.
We’ve arranged through The Bright Lights Book Project in Alaska to send hundreds of books to the school to restore their outdated library.
A busy and promising day and week.
More later.
Dipped in to your blog for the first time in years and see you are still as hypocritical as ever. You are a late seventies year old man who proclaims that you aren’t political, but your actions prove that you are. Good grief you went to man a phone bank for Hillary on 2016. That’s a political stance. What do you think about Joe pudding head now? Gas prices up. 8% inflation. Live what you support, Jon. Hope you go broke again, not because of tending to your patch, but because of supporting an idiot. Are you now today better off than you were three years ago? Don’t answer. We know the answer. To be so old and to learn so little. Sad.
I’ll go away again.
Michael, how are you? Hope you and the family are well. Promises, promises, you keep promising to go away, but like mosquitoes in August, there you are. I am not worthy of your contempt, so maybe go away for good this time.
Keep your promises. Blessings to you. Old hypocrites can never change their colors; you should know that. P.S. I am MUCH better than I was three years ago, and I am proud to say no politician, Biden or otherwise, has one thing to do with it.
Happiness is my job and my responsibility.
My life does not revolve around politicians; that’s a fast track to being nasty and miserable (like you); my happiness comes from inside of me, not outside. Try it.
I hope I never spend a minute of my life sending hate messages to strangers on the Internet. Your pal, Jon
Good lord, you have to put up with nonsense like that? I don’t understand why people try to bring others down. I can say that yep, I’m better off than I was three years ago — and a little bit of that is reading this blog and watching your photos get better all the time. It’s a wonderful time to be alive, when we have the chance to communicate so directly with so many other folks and even help them out a little here and there.
Thanks, Pete; that is sadly the American disease right now, I constantly vacillate between ignoring it and calling the peckerheads out on it. I’m not sure I’ll ever resolve it, but I get plenty of praise and encouragement from very nice and thoughtful people like you. Your message was lovely and meant a lot to me, and I thank you for it.
Heh Jon,
I recently found a statement online that I liked. It covers all bases and all types of people (even Michael Penney types): I have no energy for hate—- I either love you, wish you well, or hope you heal.
Thanks, I like it..
This is a beautiful photo!
You know the one good thing about rude people? We can walk away from them. They, on the other hand, have to live with themselves.
Jon,
Thank you so much for all your beautiful photos and the positive attitude you project. I’m so happy you and Maria love and respect each other so much. I look forward to your blog everyday. Keep up the good works you do helping and blessing so many others. You are a great man!
Thank you, Sue, you are a pretty sweet message writer…