DUCKPOND

Sasha and Dexter have memories longer than the road that stretches ahead. So they are going home.
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You might ask how can a dog story be one of nonviolence?
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Sasha and Dexter don’t just go for a walk. They get a chance to stop and look around. Sometimes they have their own ideas about what is interesting.
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The weather is a source of continual interest. Now we can read the weather forecast but in earlier times people looked to the nature’s signs.
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Admittedly it is a challenge to say new things about familiar scenes, but that is not an excuse not to try.
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I had to do something different this week. So I hope it all falls into place. It is a challenge to see the commonplace in new ways. Our experience can be worlds apart
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Clearly, the dogs satisfy their fundamental needs on their walks, and it is not obvious why it should be such fun.
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This week had it share of disruption, not least by the wind and rain which meant the Sasha and Dexter did not get out much.
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Daily events and circumstances are so familiar that pass almost without observation.
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The trees are residents, the dogs the visitors who follow the tracks. No doubt it is about time that the residents were given their due.

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Dogs are innocence of human designs, as often is also true for humans.
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We had to stay home for three days this week due to the heavy rain. When Sasha and Dexter ventured out, they attracted leeches.

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The weather may be getting cooler, but Sasha and Dexter are still at me keeping with the program.
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Change is afoot along the familar paths. We will have to see how extensive it will be. 
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The extended summer might have finally drawn to a close.
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As we go along our way from day to day, we pretty much do the same things and follow the same paths.
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Whatever Beethoven had in mind when he composed his Piano Sonata No 31 in A Flat Major, it was not dogs and gum trees.
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Same places, same dogs, so we thought we might try something different.
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Selecting photos for a compilation is, I find, more difficult that taking them. Digital photography encourages quantity rather than quality.
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A bumper sticker, echoing Chief Seattle, declares: “The earth does not belong to us. We belong to the earth.”
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