Brains!

Having a plan helps, steps within that plan is even better. But sadly there is no fast forward button to get the ball from rolling in the first step, to speeding to the completion of the last step.

Sometimes I'm so disappointed. Today, it was about many things, the smallest of which was the wind dying down too early. I wanted it to blow madly lulling me to sleep.

Notes about The Good Good Pig: the extraordinary life of Christopher Hogwood by Sy Montgomery

It is...how can I put this? Not great. I feel like the life of Christopher Hogwood isn't that extraordinary. Lots of people have pigs, have pets, and pets change peoples lives. Maybe it's not that the stories are not meaningful, maybe they are not presented in a way that is effective. It's not like it's terrible writing or something, it just...I just never felt moved by anything that she says about how this pig changed changing peoples lives. I think it may make a better essay...no need for chapters upon chapters of anecdotes pieced together in a strange way. I love animals, and want rights for them as much as the next person, but this woman is a little...she's the type of person at the dog park who thinks their dog is their child. I just...I don't feel that way about animals. Granted all her other books are about how people around the world interact with all the animals in the wild (which is fascinating), but for some reason when she got home from these travels, she decided keeping her deaf and blind border collie at age 14 alive was reasonable, when clearly it needed to be put to sleep. That's the kind of turn off I had about the story as a whole. Maybe I just couldn't relate.