In the Hush

Hello everybody, Such great energy today. In the past I let my birthday go rather unrecognized. Yesterday, however, I choose to observe and absorb it more than usual, in terms of evolution and gratitude. So much in mind at this moment. I sense the wind a coming. I know that feeling. We all do I imagine. How exciting to open thine arms to God. For now, all I know is that, from yesterday's extra long trek under extraordinary beautiful skies, there is nearly 1 kg of ripe blackberries in the fridge. This is all I really know.

That and the memory of a special event that happened to me many years ago. I will share and try to make it brief.

I was walking back to my apartment, not far from the beach in Playa del Rey, California when an unleashed stray dog approached me from behind. All I heard was a vicious growl. The intent of the tone was unmistakable. There wasn't anybody to be seen on the streets. I turned around and sure enough this mid-sized, rather buff, mix breed was poised to attack. Why? I will never know. In that instant I processed three options. The first was to run. The second was to throw the basketball I was carrying at him, and then... ? The third choice was the one I acted on. It, however, was by no means one I took deliberately. Pure instinct quickly had me crouch down, extend my right hand toward him and call out in the most friendly, sweet voice, 'Here puppy. Here puppy'. The dark colored mix went silent. He cocked his head in bewilderment and after what seemed to be the longest pause of silence, let out an enormous bark. A bark of frustration, resentment, defeat, jubilation? I will never know. After that, he jutted immediately off the sidewalk, in between two parked cars and out into the street. At that moment I lost sight of him because a gray car appeared, seemingly from nowhere, like the horse carriage of a ghost. For a couple seconds there was a cloud of vaporized rubber enveloping the entire car and area. After a couple of seconds the piercing scream of the breaks faded to hush. Everything was hush, including my heartbeat. Then suddenly, as the billow rose, the vehicle continued forward ever so slowly, revealing that the dog had indeed made it across to the other side of the street. Never have I seen a tail wrapped between a dog's legs so tightly.

This story kept surfacing yesterday. It was an event and lesson I shall never forget.

love and peac e~