FRIDAY NIGHT DOG BLOG – PERCEPTIONS ANEW

Sasha and Dexter, such is a fortunate dog’s life, take much in their stride, as they insist on going out.

Their fortune is the compassion with which they are seen by the person who has recently returned home after suffering some misfortune herself. These perceptions and emotions seem to be induced by association, but I suspect it is a species-specific thing. But who knows what the dogs are thinking? What is the light in their eyes might mean? What do the close-ups of Sasha as a shaggy dog story entail? What is the connection between humans and their dogs?

As Dexter becomes a shadow of his former self, Judith Durham at the 25th Anniversary of the Seekers at the Melbourne Concert Hall in September 2009 sings, mostly in English:

What could that mean?

Then there are cicadas that sing incessantly in Summer, and perhaps I am now a little grateful that natures chorus has tuned down but there is a human variation over on the other side of the Tasman Sea in the form of Kiri Te Kanawa singing “Tarakihi”:

Here are the lyrics in Maori and translated into English:

E, pakia kia rite
E, ko te rite kia rite
E, takahia kia ngawari
E, torona kei waho
Hoki mai

E whakarongo ai au
Ki te tangi mai
A te manu nei,

A te tarakihi,
I te weheruatanga
o te po

Tara ra-ta kita kita
Tara ra-ta kita kita

Wiri o papa, towene, towene
Wiri o papa, towene, towene

Hope whai-a-ke
Turi whatia
Ei! Ei! Ha!

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Clap in unison,
in unison, in unison.
Stamp your feet smoothly
Hands outstretched
then back.

I listen
to the cry
of this flying creature

of the cicada
in the middle
of the night.

Tara ra ta ki ta ki ta
…. (cicada noises)

Quivering rear end, whirring, whirring
Quivering rear end, whirring, whirring

Knees bent
hips swaying
Ei! Ei! Ha !

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The tide is up, and the river is flowing so we paddle our canoe in search of Friday Ark at Modulator, and see again whether time and tide might look kindly on the our situation.

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Picasa is the means by which the photos have been located here.

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